Who Fueled Donald Trump’s Stolen Election Myth?
In the days and weeks after the November 2020 U.S. presidential election, correspondent A.C. Thompson, who has been reporting on far-right extremism for FRONTLINE and ProPublica for years, was in Washington, D.C., covering clashes in the streets.
He’d soon turn his attention elsewhere.
“I didn’t realize that something far more consequential was happening in the hotel suites around me: a plot to undermine and overturn the election,” Thompson says.
Details of that effort unfold in Plot to Overturn the Election, a new documentary from FRONTLINE and ProPublica investigating how false claims of election fraud made their way to the center of American politics.
“I want to understand the stolen election myth,” Thompson says in the opening moments of the film. “Where did it come from? Who’s behind it? And how is the ongoing battle over the last election threatening the next one?”
In the documentary, directed by Samuel Black and
premiering March 29 on PBS and online .............
In my mind, it's no small coincidence that Russia's guy in Ukraine propping up an autocrat, Paul Manafort, was the guy working to install Russia's guy as president, and the same tactics are still being utilized to divide the United States and brainwash the populace. It is
all one single continuum of Russian interference in American politics which must be stopped.
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