Stopping the Steal
Stopping the Steal
Stopping the Steal: Convincing people to sit down for a documentary on the Big Lie, is, well, a bit of a tall order. Who really wants to revisit the ugly episode of the American democracy as Americans attempt to document what promises to be a comparatively less ugly current affair?
However, as the name avoids suggesting, the film ‘Stopping the Steal’ focuses on more than just the events around the other election that saw Joe Biden becoming the president and Donald Trump getting ready for a rage. The Stopping the Steal film, that is set to air on HBO at 9p.m. Tuesday, covers the planning and execution of the Trump’s efforts to sabotage the election outcome as narrated by his supporters in action.
Tangled in their version of events and retaking place months earlier than the election and long afterward, a number of Trump appointed officials, staff members, and GOP members, conspiracy together the scheming Trump and tried to steal the election and what it took to counter him and his co-conspirators.
Narrated by Dan Reed (‘The Truth vs. Alex Jones’), ‘Stopping the Steal’ provides a glimpse into the events of July 2020, a time when president Trump was losing his grip on power. ‘By late summer, President Trump starts to grease the wheels for excuses if he lost,’ said Alyssa Farah Griffin, the White House director of strategic communications and assistant to the president during 2020. The movie then flashes back to a summer press conference in which the former president declares: ‘These elections will be fraudulent. They’ll be fixed or rigged.’
Going up to the January 6, 2021, attempt at an insurrection, the documentary reveals step-by-step how Trump went about making sure that he remained the president at all costs. Some news and events that we already know such as the taped phone call where Trump orders Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” votes for him and Trump admitting in private that he lost to Biden no longer seem ambiguous when brought to us by those who prevented Trump from carrying out these schemes.
‘Up until the election, you might have appealed to his self-interest a lot — ‘Mr. President, this is a bad idea for you. This will hurt you,’ states former Atty. Generals William Barr who worked underTrump. ‘ That worked well in self-interest appeals because that’s how things were managed within the limits.’Another supporter Former Barr says Trump embarked on the violent confrontation against a ‘destructive’ campaign of electorates, ‘It was in the hours immediately after the election that it began to escalate into third-world levels of depravity. Such as at 2 in the morning [Trump had a news conference], and for someone like him to go outside, its extremely dangerous.
By him claiming that fraud was on going, I began to worry a lot after that point,’ Barr surmised. “Oftentimes when he said that it was rigged, his staff knew better,” said Grisham, who worked on the Trump campaign and in the White House. They were all pretending because no one wanted to have his wrath calm on them. “I’ll bet anyone, and at that time there were many people in his presence and with different thoughts, Well sir It was stolen, they were saying,” Grisham said.
The movie, for instance, overlays Grisham’s narrative and video of Trump with his accomplices in The Big Lie (Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis, Sidney Powell) who were making allegations about poll workers tampering with the ballots, voting illegal and dead people, as well as Dominion Voting Systems’ voting machines being ‘hacked’.
It was all complete and utter fabrication which, as we shall see, did not prevent them from approaching the state level officials in the all-important battlegrounds, Arizona and Georgia. They went in with the belief that ‘I was for Trump the whole time… And then it started. The steal. And now we go the other way. Everything is rigged,’” said Mr. Bowers, formerly Speaker of the House of Representatives in Arizona.
Bowers, the president, and Giuliani faced the identical threat in trying to carry out an illegal scheme to replace the state’s slate of electors with pro Trump electors. According to the Arizonan, he later had a face-to-face meeting with Giuliani when Bowers demanded for any evidence of election fraud. “Rudy, you have the proof? Yeah, yeah!’ But Jenna said: ‘Oh, I left it back at the hotel.’”
Like many others who failed to bolster the fake narratives, Bowers has been tout due and has been threatened by multitudes of trump supporters. According to the film Bowers is among the Republican leaders who did not flout their moral conscience but unfortunately at times at a very high cost.
One more Trump assistant fan before the election in 2020 was former Arizona Atty. Gen. Mark Brnovich. In the film, he avows: “President Trump did a great job … I was right there with him. [Then] my gut feeling and h He said to me a second ago: ‘Hey, you’ll be the most popular guy in America. You’ll be able to run for president. All you gotta do is say there’s fraud, or find some fraud.” He did not succumb to Trump’s demands although he did not speak to suggests any investigation into the issue of fake electors.
In this film, there were people who carried the cross and sacrificed, including Raffensperger, Maricopa County Board of Supervisors’ appointees Clint Hickman and Bill Gates, Georgia election operations manager Gabriel Sterling and Marc Short, who was then Vice-President Pence’s chief of staff, who also describes the insight of his boss being in danger with the tricky situation he was in.
The traitor filmmaker who makes the cut and who continues to claim the big lie as truth is Donald Trump’s attorney and coup planner John Eastman. Also making an appearance is Jacob Chansley who calls himself the ‘QAnon Shaman’. You may have come across videos of Chansley on 6 January running around shirtless, with a fur hat, horns, and body paint of the US flag. No need to quote him here.
This is a story which we have gone through therefore “Stopping the Steal” is not giving a warning of the future. But it makes us useful by driving home a point, this is how we should not find ourselves next time. “I think January 6th is like the trailer to a movie”, says Grisham. “That’s the one thing with Donald Trump that I’ve learned. You think he’ll just go this far and there’s not more. There’s always more. He takes it as far as it will go.”
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- Genre: Documentary
- Country: United States
- Director: Dan Reed
- Cast: Alyssa Farah Griffin, William Barr, Ronald Hansen