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Jun 21, 2022 • 11 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
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Three major January 6 figures were trailed by film crews, all foreign (Donald Trump, Enrique Tarrio: UK; Roger Stone: DK). Not likely random. Documenting your coup goes better if the filmer is less emotionally invested. Here's the subpoena (& response) by Alex "Leni" Holder 1/ ImageImage
Let's review the timing: by mid-September the machine for Jan 6 was already in motion: rallies, new organizations, talk of martial law. "Stop the Steal" was announced Sep 7. Holder's statement says he started the next week. 2/
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At the Capitol, #NeonFilmer, who filmed straight into the violent tunnel fight, is an Italian cinematographer working for BardsFM. Several videographers with better gear, pro stuff, have no known ID or outlet & their footage has never appeared. We called them "in-house media". 3/
#SeditionHunters have archived media from over 400 professional videographers and reporters. If you carried pro gear at the Capitol & are not on this list (especially you in the neon pink jacket) please contact us before we turn over info to the J6C. 4/
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In fairness to the DK crew trailing Stone, they had long worked with him, & Stone cut them off for the 3 critical hours of the Capitol attack itself (1-4 PM). Which says: Stone may not have fully expected or understood the scale of violence to come. 4/
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Here's #NeonFilmer & some in-house media pals from another angle. Circled (& in Tweet 3 video), is "Trump's Brick Suit Guy" #IamBlakeMarnell - wore an RSBN press pass on J6 but also brandished a pitchfork, cheered the attack. The filmer by the tunnel is Andrew Morgan, arrested 6/ Image
Update: for those want to know what depth of film-making experience it takes to be granted exclusive access to the US president, here is Alex Holder's IMDb page. Total: two production credits, ever. 7/
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Holder's doc "Keep Quiet" profiles a former leader of Hungary's far-right anti-semitic Jobbik party. Storyline: Szegedi finds he is in fact Jewish, moves to Israel. Sadly too much Jan 6 makes you cynical, too many such magic transformations: right-->left or left--> right. 8/ Image
Candace Owens (#Blexit), Brandon Straka (#Walkaway), Asher Meza (#Jexit), Cassandra Fairbanks (Anon --> conservative), Anna Khait (honeypot --> Christian). So effective to say, "I was different, now I have changed". Maybe Szegedi's the real deal. Sure could use some reporting. 9/
Alex Holder now tells Rolling Stone he was hired directly by the Trump family & has "never-before-seen" footage of the Capitol attack. Let's take bets. Which "in-house" videographer will he feature? And was Trump getting that video live on Jan 6? 10/
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In case it's not clear: the week after Stop the Steal was announced, the Trump family hired a foreign filmmaker whose only prior experience was laundering the reputation of an extremist politician - and who now has his own, exclusive footage of the attack on the US Capitol. 11/

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