Time s 2001 Person of the Year and a beloved 9/11 leader to Donald Trump s hugely controversial right-hand man. Rarely has a public figure in America fallen so far so fast in the public eye,
Rolling Stone s director of content development Jason Fine said in a statement. As we ve reported on Rudy s downfall his bizarre political manoeuvring, shady business dealings, and now, being under criminal investigation by the same U.S. Attorney s Office in Manhattan that he once ran we see his story as a parable for the dark forces that have shaped American politics.
The project is being produced and financed by MRC Non-Fiction, the company behind Questlove s Sly Stone documentary and Edgar Wright s Sparks brothers documentary.
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A new documentary from
Rolling Stone Films and MRC Non-Fiction will examine the life and career of Rudy Giuliani.
The doc is slated for a 2022 release and will be directed by Oscar nominee Zach Heinzerling (
Cutie and the Boxer) and Emmy winner Gabrielle Schonder (
The NRA: Under Fire). The film will be based on Seth Hettena’s May 2020 feature on Giuliani for
Per a press release, the film will delve into how Giuliani rose to prominence after September 11th as “America’s Mayor,” cultivating the aura of a reliable leader and national hero. The film will then examine how Giuliani has steadily chipped away at his own reputation in the two decades since, especially after he became heavily involved with former President Donald Trump, including his role in the Ukraine scandal that led to Trump’s first impeachment, to his work as Trump’s personal lawyer pushing phony fraud claims after the 2020 election.
In The Moment … January 26th, 2021 Show 978 Hour 1
The sight of rioters storming their way into the Capital Building in Washington, D.C., shook the world. It was a chaotic end to the Trump presidency that, some say, was marked by division, distrust, and anger. In a new FRONTLINE, Trump s American Carnage tells the inside story of how Trump s presidency laid the groundwork for bitter division, violence and insurrection.
Trump s American Carnage premieres tonight at 9:00 Central/8:00 Mountain on SDPB-TV.
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Twelve days after the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, Bob Corker, a former Republican senator from Tennessee, told FRONTLINE that “we take our democracy for granted, and yet I think recently we’ve realized how fragile that might be.”
Corker spoke to FRONTLINE for
Trump’s American Carnage, a new documentary that examines how former President Donald Trump stoked division and violence throughout his administration, leading to the insurrection that took place earlier this month.
In a broad-ranging interview with FRONTLINE producer Gabrielle Schonder, Corker talked about Trump’s impact on the Republican party, on U.S. democracy and on Americans who believe Trump’s unfounded claims of election fraud. Below are some highlights from the interview; read and watch an extended version as part of FRONTLINE’s ongoing Transparency Project.
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It was a sight that shook the world: Images of a violent pro-Trump mob storming the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to stop the certification of the presidential election, threatening lawmakers’ lives, flying the Confederate flag in the building’s halls and erecting a gallows outside.
But the chaotic and deadly end of Donald Trump’s presidency was in many ways the inevitable result of four years of a president who stoked distrust, divison, anger and racism and ultimately sought to undermine the election itself, with large swathes of his party echoing his claims.