I dont even know how to explain 2020. It was a crazy, crazy year. Bad things happened in philadelphia. Bad things. Former Vice President joe biden to become the 46th president of the united states. I had to idea what we would be in for. I thought it was a fake. I thought my friend were messing with me. A philadelphia Landscaping Company has been thrust into the national spotlight. The entire thing was supposed to be anonymous. It put me in shock to see my name on the president s twitter. We probably got thousands of calls. You have 950 new messages. We had a lot of haters. I remember asking, did we make a mistake . There were just way too many trees. Heres the other thing, and i think well discuss this with the board when we have the zoom. My name is marie siravo, im 65, and im the president of four seasons total landscaping. We do ground maintenance, irrigation, seeding, flowers, snow removal. Its kind of boring. Paul is on the phone. I think the most challenging part of starting the business and being in business was being woman owned. Nobody took you serious. Youre on the property, you have cameras. Yeah. Our other maintenance men on other properties, they connect with us, we help them, they help us. If i had a dollar for every time i got asked, did i have a husband . I have a wonderful husband. He just had his business and i had mine. This is my life, other than my family, this is my entire life. We want to make sure that if we do purchase this, its meeting our needs and that we dont know also need another building. I have three boys. Michaels the youngest. Mike took one of the General Manager role. I had to let go a little bit, because i want my hands in everything. How many people get the chance to go to work every day with their mother . The first thing we do is fix everything with food. This is part of our italian culture. Some days are like phenomenal. And then some days she cant figure out how to use the printer and its frustrating. Mike i need some help. We have some days where our horns lock. And he forgets im still his boss, but i try not to use that card, because i need him to learn everything thats in my head. I started. From the very bottom, being a laborer, learning everything, to basically working underneath the supervisor and shadowing him. I pretty much worked from the ground up to where i am now. You get it . Ground up. Other than that, like, thats not scheduled work, so basically, mike and shaun, they run the daily operations. I really do depend on mike. Were partners with his mother in this business. Shaun and i met when we were in college and he was an upper classman. I looked up to him as like a role model. He was almost like a big brother to me. Mike and i have been through a lot together, both personally and professionally. Were both in recovery, which is a big thing we have in common. If you can do it with Somebody Else who has the same goals as you do, to become a better person on a daily basis, it makes it easier. Theyre like two old souls. They Work Together so well. I know they both have the companys best interest at heart. Sometimes it takes a little, you know, ive just got to let him be him and back up, and he comes around. So is this what people want to hear about . In this documentary . In addition to nevada, the race for the white house has not been called for pennsylvania. Confusing pennsylvania is going to be. President trump is still leading in that state by about 108,000 votes. For days after the election, there wasnt a clear winner and it left everybody stressed. Philadelphia became ground zero for the election battle. The Convention Center in the center of philadelphia is where all the votes started being counted. Crowds started gathering outside. You had Trump Supporters and biden supporters and they were facing off against each other across the street. People were dressing up as the constitution, people were dressing up at mailboxes, theyre Holding Signs saying we the people, progressive versus conservative america, in one place, these two streets outside the philly legal center. Trumps legal team turn up at the philly Convention Center. Pam goes to address the crowd, and the count every vote protest across the street turn up the music really, really loud. So you cannot hear a word that pam says, because its completely overwhelmed by the sounds of beyonce. Everybody was biting at each other, every post and tweet and instagram you saw, people were arguing and it just was very uneasy. And then, the phone call. My phone rang around 8 45 a. M. I was in a mens bible study in doylestown, pennsylvania. Hello . So i didnt answer. And then my phone immediately rang again. So i excused myself and walked outside. And it was a trump staffer. They were asking if we would be amenable to them having a Press Conference at four seasons total landscaping. I just thought, why not . By about 9 45, the deal was sealed. Its just insane, out of all places, its here. Were a Landscaping Company. Were experts in ground maintenance, irrigation, seeding, planting, not Press Conferences. Conferences. Downys been taking you back, since way back. With freshness and softness you never forget. Feel the difference with downy. [uplifting music playing] i had a dream that someday i would just fly, fly away when the chapstick goes on. Its on. Get yours on at chapstick. Com suddenly this tweet comes through from donald trump. Lawyers Press Conference at four seasons philadelphia at 11 00 a. M. I sprang into action, grabbed all my stuff, made phone calls to the editor. I go down to the Four Seasons Hotel in downtown philadelphia. I think i was at the door when the second tweet came through. Four seasons landscaping philadelphia. I think my initial was just one of utter confusion. Its like, of course its there. Theres landscaping there. And i thought, its the Four Seasons Hotel, the entrance area with the landscaping. My assumption was that he had mushed the keypad somehow and accidentally typed the word landscaping. I got a phone call from the Four Seasons Hotel, and he said, marie, ive got one question, are they coming to you or are they coming to me . Trump deletes the second tweet and a third tweet comes in, and it says, Big Press Conference in philadelphia, four seasons total landscaping. Why would the president s lawyers hold a Press Conference at a Landscaping Company . This story starts with donald trump tweeting that would be a Press Conference on saturday morning at the four seasons in philadelphia. No, not the hotel, but four seasons total landscaping. It remains unclear whether the Trump Campaign booked the whole thing in error or not. Why did you pick this place . It was just a head scratcher. This was just the beginning of how surreal this event was. Its not prominent, why is it here . I mean, you had more questions than you could possibly have answered. With trump, it was always difficult to get answers about the truth. Sometimes it was because people didnt know the answers. Often it was because they were lying. I spent weeks and weeks interviewing everybody i could and hitting dead end after dead end after dead end. Nobody really knew how they ended up at a Landscaping Place in a part of town that, you know, normally is not where campaigns host these things. I set out try to answer what i thought was a simple question. What the hell had happened. And the longer that i dug into it, the crazier and crazier it was. Mistake or not, they held their Press Conference at the loading dock of the landscaper. Heres what it looked like. Thats quite an image. Projects power. Obviously, they screwed up. They called the wrong place, and they just thought, well, lets just go with it. We are on an Industrial Strip with a crematorium across the street and an adult video and bookstore up the street. There was a level of excitement among our staff that we would be hosting the president s Campaign Staff here. But that was quickly followed by dread. An Obvious Screwup in booking, but they all played along, pretended that was the master plan. There are two different theories that i had and other people had as well. One, i thought that maybe they had someone thought that they could book the Four Seasons Hotel. Someone on the campaign made the president think that it was a possibility that it would be held there, and that, you know, once he tweeted that, they googled around and found that the closest thing found four seasons to the four seasons philadelphia happened to be this Landscaping Place. The other theory, it was this perfect storm of minor screwups from various people at various levels of the campaign. And somehow, maybe through a connection or an accident, they ended up here. I met the Campaign Staff here at about 9 30. It was a pretty quick setup. Obviously, you saw what was on tv. Im pretty proud of the space that we were able to curate in such a small amount of time. I mean, it was a Landscape Construction yard. Normally, you might have Police Outside on the perimeter, but it was just private security. And they asked us to put our News Organizations down on a clipboard, and then they would call us in. And they made us look like it might be exclusive, like we might not all get called in. Every time they called a news organization, the six to eight Trump Supporters would boo. Request that a republican the media is whores the media are all whores the biggest part for me was seeing giuliani pull up in two black suburbans. I thought i was dreaming. Nobody famous has ever been here. And it was almost like it was in slow motion, like him walking into the office. I actually wasnt going to come here. And i got a phone call from my son, anthony, and he said, mom, this is bigger than we think. And he sends me a picture while im talking to him. And rudy is sitting at my desk and the plaque in front of my desk says boss lady. I looked at my husband and i said, i think we better get over there. We demand a Fair Election we demand a Fair Election we demand a Fair Election we demand a Fair Election there was a crowd of people, both biden and Trump Supporters were there they were going back and forth with each other and the cops showed up and the entire front road was shut down. And thats when it got very nerveracking for me. It was just overwhelming. I looked around, tried to figure out who everybody was. The Press Conference was about to start. I stood on top of a Press Conference so i could see and i just watched. In the final weeks of the Trump Campaign, officials told me that keeping Rudy Business became like a fulltime job. They had to devise places to send him, specific aides to keep with him and that would make it so that he was not kind of running wild, creating whackamole problems for them. Rudy giuliani is undermining the confidence inspect American Election skpm therefore undermining our national security. Rudy giuliani was considered to be a great force of law and order. He was one of the heroes of 9 11. And i think thats part of why it was so disturbing to watch him unravel and to watch him debase himself in support of this guy who they thought that he was better than. By the way, do you have any idea that the State Department shut up shut up hold on. Shut up you dont know what youre talking about. You dont know what youre talking about, idiot. He was kind of a mess. But he was always around. And he was always loyal, and that was the only thing that really seemed to matter to the president. He is a great guy. He knows its a witch hunt. Thats what he knows. Hes seen a lot of them. Rudy followed his Press Coverage very carefully and he was very aware of what the view of him was in mainstream circles. He was nothing but respectful to us when he was here. Shook all of our hands, took pictures with us, greeted all the cops. But, you know, i think going on tv, i dont know if, you know, something changes. He once told me my view of my legacy is, quote, fuck it. What a beautiful day. Thank you. Thank you for coming. Im here on behalf of the Trump Campaign, as an attorney for the president , to describe to you the first part of a situation that is extremely, extremely troubling. So Rudy Giuliani comes out and launches into this speech about how the election was stolen and how there are very Grave Allegations of fraud. He has witnesses behind him. People who have seen alleged fraud, people who will be testifying in lawsuits. He presents this guy, darryl brooks, later to learn that hes exposed himself to children under age. So it became clear pretty quickly that there was nothing really there. There was no big revelation. He wasnt exposing some big fraud that had taken place in philadelphia. The election wasnt stolen. While rudy was speaking, i was off to the side with mike and marie bicep just kind of looked at each other and were in awe of how long this was going on. I know, i know you wont accept it because of your hateful biases, but see if you can try thinking rationally. Now, some of those ballots have been manufactured in advance by the democrat machine of philadelphia. It wouldnt be the first time they did it. I didnt think anybody took this real seriously. How can i possibly tell you theres fraud or no fraud. You just said somebody yells out, do you know, theyve called the election for biden. Who was it called by . Who was it called by . All the oh, my goodness, all the networks . Wow all the networks . All the networks when have the networks decided the election, something to that effect. And were all thinking, all the time. Networks call the elections all the time. You can see this ripple among the crowd of journalists as they try figure out what to do. And im kind of standing there thinking the same thing, do i need to stand here and listen to Rudy Giuliani or go back to philadelphia where people will be celebrating the election. And you see people start to pack up their stuff. Many of them had to leave, because the primary story wasnt that Rudy Giuliani was challenging the Election Results, the story was that biden had just won the presidency. If somebody asks me, where were you when they called the election for joe biden. I would say, well, i was in the parking lot of four seasons total landscaping. Thank you. The president s lawyer left as the news came in that joe biden had been declared the victor. Perhaps this is why they chose the industrial state. They wouldnt be heard or welcome here in downtown philadelphia. A city in a state which delivered donald trump the white house four years ago, pennsylvania is now the state which pushed joe biden over the line. I just thought, sure, we said, yeah, and it was going to be over. Period. We would have done this for either Political Campaign. We just wanted to be helpful. And we just had no idea what we were in for. Hey, did you see my press Conference Today . It was at the four seasons, fancy. Yeah, sounds fancy, but it was at a Landscaping Company called four seasons. Was that a mistake . What . no we heard from all different types of Media Outlets and people wanting to know more about what happened. I got calls from the Washington Post chicago times. The new york times. Usa today. Yahoo news. Netflix. Hulu. Abc. Nbc. Fox. Cnn. The bbc. I started seeing that this was going further and it was going into europe. German newspapers. Irish newspapers. You name it, they were all calling. My emails have not stopped. You getting emails . Nonstop. Are you . Yeah, its insane. It was supposed to be anonymous yeah, yeah right. Thats why i said yes. Otherwise, if i thought it was turning into this, i would have thought twice. On the day after the Press Conference, it was nothing but chaos. We couldnt even use the office phone for two weeks, because it. You couldnt even get a thought processed. You have 1,010 new messages, of which three are urgent. Hey, for four seasons total landscaping. I understood that there is a special on bullshit this week. New message, two. Hi, do you provide Services Like dismantling our democracy . Deleted. You guys are fucking gross. Delete. Youre fucking traitor. Deleted. The things theyre saying about us are amazing. I cant even believe this. Wait until you hear this one. Theres a big conspiracy theory, were burning ballots across the street at the crematory. Peoples minds, theyre just delusional. That was one of the hardest parts for me. I never had to deal with that level of hate. Im talking hundreds and hundreds of emails i just got, basically saying to go eff yourself, im going to burn down your building. It created a lot of fear for what the future holds for four seasons total landscaping. Its frightening, because 28 years could go down the tubes. I remember asking my husband, joe, are we going to survive this . Are we going to get out of this in one piece . People dont get it, that being in business is not a picnic. I remember them coming to take my car in the middle of the night, bringing a generator home because they shut my electric off, because i couldnt cash my checks. I had a tough time borrowing money when i bought this building. I had to put my house up for the bank to give me the mortgage. So i had the shot of losing both places. Do i want to see something that she built just disappear . Or was i going to keep the legacy going . Trying to operate a business through all of this, i dont even know what word to use to describe this. People were taunting us, laughing at us, mocking us, and we needed to figure out a way to let them all know that we were in on the joke and that we were laughing, too. All, all the networks when you surround yourself with good people, good things happen. I think it started to turn when michael and sean started to run with this on instagram and facebook and they made a joke out of everything, because it was funny to us after, that they picked us out of everybody in the world, they picked our place. If this whole thing blew up, i would recover from it. I would go and work somewhere else, but a Family Business that was 28 years in the making might not recover from Something Like this. And i felt responsible, because these people are my family. Understanding the joke and being in on it, it was just like almost a waterfall of memes that you can make. We got put into a corner, and we used our humor to get us out of it. We were making thousands of people laugh all over the entire not only nation, but world. It went from being majority negative and getting hate to then the total opposite, overnight. They ended up doing this in kind of a rinky dink parking lot, no offense to the Landscaping Company. The real winner wasnt the campaign, it was the total Landscaping Company which has really come out of this on top, just owning social media over the last month. Like true entrepreneurs, we wanted to capitalize on this International Attention and sell tshirts. We went from being a landscaper to selling merchandise. We just started filling orders day and a night. Weve done approximately 1. 5 million in sales revenue. Thats a lot of tshirts. Weve been getting a lot of fan mail. People have been sending us Christmas Cards with our Zoom Background on them. Can you believe somebody made this . They made us our own lego set. There was a diorama of our company in berlin that amazed me. Who would want this . Somebody made a Virtual Reality four seasons. We had people showing up on our doorstep, knocking, asking for tshirts. We even had one employee that was leaving and somebody offered them 50 for the stained sweaty tshirt off their back. We had hundreds of visitors coming in the first couple of days following our social media revamp. Suddenly, we had fans. It was surreal. Would you look at all of these people out here. Its like every day, this is insane. People have referred to us as a philly landmark. Weve had so many families out front we even had two sisters, one lived in bethlehem, pennsylvania, the other in new york city, and they met here with a blanket and a Picnic Basket and had their Thanksgiving Dinner together here. I really think that the Four Seasons Hotel thing was a blessing for us. If our name had been maries landscaping, none of this would have happened. Well, the family at four seasons total landscaping appears to have taken this in their stride. Go online now, and you can buy a range of make America Rake Again and Lawn And Order merchandise. I reached out to the Four Seasons Hotel. My reporting concluded that nobody from the Trump Campaign or any campaign had reached out to the Four Seasons Hotel about campaigning any kind of event. I love the narrator that it was a mistake and they meant to book the Four Seasons Hotel. There was no mistake. This is exactly where the Press Conference was supposed to be. They had surveyed some areas along the i95 corridor and our site was one of the ones that they determined would be secure with quick access on and off the highway. And it was free. Thats another important thing. The Trump Campaign blew through 1. 1 billion of. They were near broke before the president ial election. They didnt have any money. And thats why it couldnt have been at the Four Seasons Hotel. They would have charged them. Thats why it was at four seasons total landscaping. Theres your inside track. Cause they didnt want to do it anywhere else. This has given me something that i cant even explain to you. Its worth more than money. Because this was not about money. At all. This was about our story. Its an american underdog story. I think we were able to turn something that appeared to be disastrous for a Small Business into something positive. Before the Press Conference, four seasons total landscaping was struggling. Almost like living from paycheck to paycheck. Going from being almost a local city Landscaping Company to now being globally recognized. Its amazing. But we are just honored to be able to give back, being able to help the next person out. We did a toy drive this christmas with toys for tots. Me and sean went in ourselves and delivered them to the hospital. Thank you, ladies, so much. I really appreciate it. For them to get that joy, that was the best part for me. You know . Im very proud of myself for that. When we get on the zoom, i want you to take over this. Yeah, i got you. Were at the end of the line for me and my career, but i know when i hand those keys over to michael, hes got it. Hes proved himself. Michael has shown every day how much hes grown as an individual, as a father, as a husband, as a son. Hes a phenomenal mother. Shes always there to support me. Its like always having somebody with their hand on your back, pushing you to greatness. For him to step into my shoes and take over my role, i have so much faith in him. I know he can do anything. 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On the morning of november 7th, 2020, then President Donald Trump sent out a series of tweets announcing that his campaign would be holding a Press Conference at the four seasons in philadelphia. Not the Four Seasons Hotel, but four seasons total landscaping. The familyowned business located in north Philadelphia Industrial Park just off of i95. It became host to one of the most surreal moments of the 2020 election and the subject of the four seasons total documentary. The director of that documentary, christopher stout, the owner of four seasons total landscaping, marie siravo, and her son and director of operations, Michael Siravo all join me now. Guys, great to have you here. This was an incredible documentary. I cried, i laughed, i was rooting for you at the end and so glad to finally have the ability to talk to you. Marie, i wanted to talk to you and see how youre doing in all of this. How has this been for you and how is the business and family doing now . Everybodys doing great. And ill be honest with you, this was the ride of a lifetime. Im at the end of my career and i im happy that i made the decision i made when we were in you know, when we were initially called to hold the Press Conference here, and i never could have imagined that it could have turned out like this, but it has been such a year for us, because weve had one thing after another have happened, people have embraced us around the country and around the world. Messages weve gotten, i couldnt be happier. And then, you know, to get to a year and a documentary i its just amazing for us, were thrilled. Chris, lets talk about that documentary for a moment. How did you decide on doing a documentary about this . How did you connect with the family . And how did you manage to get through to them with all of the thousands of phone calls and messages that they were receiving on any given day . Obviously, the whole world wanted to know the mystery. Why did the president s lawyer hold a Press Conference at a Landscaping Company . Clearly, this was this big question, the milliondollar question that needed to be solved. And outlets from All Over The World were reaching out to them. But i actually had sort of an inside track. As it turned out, a friend of mine was brothers with sean middleton, the director of sales at four seasons, so i was actually able to get on the phone with them before anyone else did. And when we got on the phone together, i got the sense that every outlet wanted to know, you know, why did this happen . Why was the press Conference Held there . And for me, i was a lot more interested in actually getting to know them as people, and seeing how their experience has been, just having their world turned upside down. They were such a fish out of water. And for me the conflict just called to me as a filmmaker. You know, what the hell happened . Michael, i wanted to play for you this clip from the documentary, just after the Press Conference, with Rudy Giuliani. Watch this moment. That was one of the hardest parts for me. I never had to deal with that level of hate. Im talking hundreds and hundreds of emails. I just got, basically saying to go eff yourself, im going to burn down your building. It created a lot of fear of what the future holds for four seasons total landscaping. So michael, the future has played out a little bit. Tell us, are you still getting messages like that . How do you handle the messages, if at all, that youre receiving now . Complete opposite messages. Theyre filled with like love and appreciation for the way that we spun this and making it an almost comedic you know, if anybody ever comes and stops through here, we hand them stickers, whatever we can. Its crazy to even think that for us, that there are fans. Thats the hardest part for me. Its just like, theres actual fans of a philadelphiabased Landscaping Company, you know, its just its still hard for me to grasp. But i always tell people, if youre in the area, stop through, well take pictures, well do what we can, if we have time. Yeah, i love it. Christopher, you had such an intimate insight into making this documentary. What surprised you the most while you were making this film . I mean, i think to mikes point, the thing that surprised me the most was this outpouring of love that four seasons received after the Press Conference. I mean, they sold 1. 5 million worth of tshirts. Thats just incredible. You can actually still buy those tshirts now. People were making Christmas Cards featuring the garage doors as their Zoom Background. Those two sisters that came to four seasons to have their thanksgiving there, clearly, this moment resonated with people. And it created just such an outpouring of love and suddenly, four seasons total landscaping sort of meant something to people. And it became this American People that people could actually share with together. And it kind of created this online community. Im going to go Out On A Limb and say theres probably going to be some wedding proposal there at some point. Let me ask you really quickly, marie, let me ask you about the because its become such an iconic location, has any other Political Party or campaign has reached out to hold a political event there . And if so, what would you say . Unfortunately, no other Political Campaign has approached us, but we would have said yes. Because, you know, knowing where it got us here, and all the excitement that weve had, we would do it again, we would do it again. The outpouring and the embracing that weve had, the way people have treated us, the end result was just it may not have been business enhancing, but the treatment that we got, and truthfully, everywhere we go, somebody knows us. Its exciting. Its really exciting. You work your whole life, and what a way to go out, you know, im at the end of my career and this is just amazing to me, that people stop me and say, you look like the girl from the lady from four seasons. I am the lady from four seasons, and its just funny. Its just, you know, its amazing. Michael, i know the future of this company so important to you and your family. We heard christopher there talk about how you turned this bad situation into a positive one with the merchandise. Have you given any thought about the future of the company and what you can do if you even plan on expanding it from beyond just doing landscaping and now the merchandise, you know, perhaps even become an event space one day . Yeah, i think the main goal for me is to obviously create more jobs. Keep growing to the next level. That was always my plan prior to all of this excitement and the conference. Our niche landscaping. It probably always will be. Ill do the same thing that i did the first time around, its just take one day at a time, one week at a time, and just kind of go from there. If something gets put in our opportunity to do something, yeah, i dont see why not. Well, were going to be rooting for you for whatever you decide to do in the future. Christopher stout and michael and plea siravo, thank you so much for this absolutely brilliant and wonderful documentary. Up next, how the electionfraught narrative pushed by Rudy Giuliani and four seasons total landscaping became a defining belief among republican voters. The growth of the big lie, Coming Up Next. Oters. The growth of the big lie, Coming Up Next skin that never holds you back. 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So the election lies pushed by the Trump Campaign at four seasons total landscaping in November Of 2020 have only kept growing ever since. Joining me here to talk about that, one of the producers on four seasons total documentary, olivia nuzzi, the washington correspondent for new york magazine, along with msnbc political analyst, Kimberly Atkins stork. Great to have both of you with us. Lets start with that moment, when you look at that time that Rudy Giuliani was standing there, peddling the allegations of voter fraud and that the election was stolen, just as the networks were calling the election for joe biden, it almost seems comical, and you want to laugh a what you were seeing there, but given how this has now resonated among republicans, what is that moment in time mean for where we are as a country . One way you could look at it as i wouldnt say a break with reality, when people would talk about the wheels being off of the trump white house, i would always say, like, there were wheels . So four seasons was not a breaking point, because things had been insane, the election had been all about conspiracies for a long time. The administration had been about conspiracies. Donald trumps entire political career was about conspiracies. But that it was just kind of this formal moment where they officially made conspiracies and insanity their strategy going forward. And what followed that was the insurrection. So even though this was just this hilarious weird historic event at this Landscaping Company, by mistake or foreplanning, it still theres a kind of grimness to the whole thing in knowing what came after. So, kimberly, to that point, when you look at where the polling is today on this, you know, some polls suggest as much as 68 of republicans believe the election was stolen. They believe the big lie. Its even higher for people who use fox news as their main source of information or who trust it. I think its like in the low 80s. How do you begin to even counter the big lie, when you have that many people buying into it . Its difficult. And to be sure, this was amp amplified by donald trump and his campaign. But it goes back so much farther. We have to show that the big lie and why it was able to take hold is for decades, particularly republicans, have used this idea of protecting against fraud. Fraud thats never existed, thats never been proven, in order to make voting more difficult. To pass laws with everything but from stripping voters names from polls, from requiring i. D. Requirements, where we know that its more difficult for black people, brown people, poor people, to get them, and they tend to vote democratic. Thats been happening for a long time. You have the stripping of the Voting Rights act where it happened even more. So that was the kindling Donald Trumps big lie was able to set a fire and really lead to this. Its a slow buildup and thats why its so much harder to fight back against now. And in the months leading up though fateful day at four seasons total landscaping, the Trump Campaign was trump was sort of throwing out Different Reasons why he would eventually lose. Once it became clear to him, i remember talking to advisers in the white house and on the campaign, once he started to accept that it was a possibility, which took a really long time, given what the polls said, and how things were going in the country with the coronavirus, he started to kind of amp things up with spitballing about things that were going wrong, who was taking the election from him. The fact that fraud was forthcoming, basically. So give himself an excuse in the event that he did lose. You talk about Conspiracy Theories. There was this one moment in the documentary that i think is very foreshadowing. Its when marie starts receiving phone calls and messages and one of them was a conspiracy theory. Watch. The things theyre saying about us is like amazing. I just i cant even believe this. Okay, guys, wait until you hear this one, theres a big conspiracy theory. Were burning ballots across the street at the crematory. Kimberly, that seems like a harbinger of the Conspiracy Theories that we are now inundated with around this election, because of moments like that. Absolutely. When there are when theres no uniform source of information, Information Sources are diversified, and when so much misinformation is just being feudal into this election and the past several elections, thats what happens, people believe what they want to believe. They believe farfetched things as long as it confirms their own biases. Thats where you see that kind of thing run wild. And thats what were seeing today. People are dug into their corners and believing whatever supports their side. Kimberly atkin stork, olivia nuzzi, thank you so much. Were using the hashtag fourseasonstotal. So please join in. Im Ayman Mohyeldin. Good night. Today on velshi, news of the Omnicron Covid variant is coming in fast as more countries confirm cases and Drug Companies rush to test their vaccines against it. Well have the very latest from a Top Biden Administration official and one of the countrys foremost vaccine experts. Plus, well hear from one woman whos fighting on the front lines against the redistricting apocalypse. Find out what shes doing. And were expecting a big week ahead from the january 6th select committee, well get you up to speed who knows being subpoenaed, whos cooperating, and whats going on with all of