• A documentary filmmaker given particular entry to the Trump household has weighed in on their dynamic.

• Alex Holder in contrast Trump’s and his grownup kids — Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka, and Eric — to a “actual life succession drama.”

• “It is form of obtained this, like, ‘Succession’-type vibe,” Holder mentioned of their interactions.

A British documentary filmmaker who was granted unique entry to the Trump household forward of the Capitol riot has weighed in on the relationships between Trump and his three most well-known grownup kids — Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka and Eric.

Talking to Yahoo Information on the outlet’s podcast, “Skullduggery,” Alex Holder mentioned the household agreed to be filmed  as a result of they had been “very, very assured they had been going to win the election” and that their “hubris was simply completely exceptional.”

Requested how he bought his venture to the household, Holder mentioned: “I imply, the pitch was I wished to grasp who they had been as individuals. They’d at all times complained concerning the protection that they had been getting within the US.”

“They had been at all times complaining concerning the ‘faux information media’ and all that. So, let’s attempt to perceive who they’re as individuals,” he added.

Holder additionally likened the connection between Trump and his high-profile kids to the hit HBO collection “Succession,” which facilities on the dysfunctional and extremely rich Roy household and its steady scheming for management amongst its members.

“And I am talking particularly about Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump, and Eric Trump, after which the president himself, and the interactions they’ve with one another, and the interplay they’ve with their father,” Holder mentioned.

“It is form of obtained this, like, ‘Succession’-type vibe within the venture,” Holder mentioned. “But additionally, you realize, it’s a real-life succession drama.”

Based mostly on his interactions with the previous president, Holder mentioned he thought Trump was “delusional” and lives in “cloud cuckoo land.” He added that he believed Trump was additionally “extremely harmful” as a result of he by no means accepts blame and is “at all times proper.”

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“Donald Trump is just not a rational participant. I imply, he simply is not,” Holder mentioned. “You possibly can’t have a dialog with him in the identical approach which you can have a dialog with most different individuals. He’s any individual that lives in a unique actuality.”

Representatives at Trump’s post-presidential press workplace didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark from Insider.

Holder’s footage was subpoenaed by the January 6 committee investigating the Capitol riot in June. The footage is a part of a documentary referred to as “Unprecedented,” which follows Trump and people in his inside circle within the months earlier than the Capitol riot.

A trailer of the documentary additionally consists of interviews with Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, and former Vice President Mike Pence. 

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