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‘Downfall’ will repeat on Thursday January 28 at 0.30 on BBC 2 and will be viewable Thursday February 11 on NPO 2
‘Downfall’ is a special episode of ‘The Trump Show’, the excellent three-part series in which a BBC crew last fall scrutinized the presidency of the orange man whose qualms are as limited as his vocabulary . This series ended a few weeks before the November 6 election and as a few things happened in the United States from the polls, the manufacturers were forced to throw out an epilogue, for which they arguably weren’t going to get the title entirely by accident. Bee Oliver hirschbiegels film about the last days of Adolf Hitler.
The hour-long documentary debuted in Arizona, it’s true Donald trump held one of its many meetings a week before the election. There were also thousands of enthusiastic fans without a mouth mask Nigel Farage, the British politician who brought his country out of the European Union and a staunch supporter of Trump: that the president in the tone of ‘In the Air Tonight’ of Phil collins landed on the tarmac, all he had to do was call the guy the greatest showman in political history. Farage was also allowed to take the stage in Arizona himself – after Trump introduced him as generously as the ‘king of Europe’ – and in a brief speech he described the president as “the bravest person he has ever met”.
Trump was not brave enough to admit his loss, and “ Downfall ” vividly but predictably showed just how disturbing the man with his stories of fraud was (the press conference at Four Seasons Total Landscaping !), Disturbing (his question) in recent months. the representative of Georgia “to find 11,780 votes”) and created downright dangerous moments (the capture of the Capitol). Comments on all of these events have come primarily from certain journalists, opinion leaders and former Trump employees, including the almost inevitable Anthony scaramucci, who worked as Trump’s spokesperson for ten days in the summer of 2017 and has since built a lucrative career as a former Trump spokesperson.
The most notable testimonies came from some people who were still close to Trump after November 6, either because they were part of his electoral team or because, like the pastor Darrell scott, be friends with the man. Each of them seemed to have very few regrets about how things turned out and, while the situation got out of hand, were very lightly about the lies Trump instigated on his supporters. Talking about fraud right away, they said, was not a strategic move, even though Trump announced it months in advance and dropped the word in 2016 in a debate with Hillary Clinton as the reason why he would lose from her. They thought it was mainly the disappointment that had made him do it, that – as he had told Scott on a phone call – he “could bear his loss but not be cheated.”
None of them – including Farage – therefore felt it necessary to let Trump down or say he tried to cheat. Closest came a campaign worker who said that in Trump’s entourage there was gradually a growing realization that “ there was no proof ” that the president and his More and more crazy theories were springing up around the avocado. Rudy Giuliani claims. But that, of course, is not the same as admitting that the whole story was based on nothing. Maggie Vandenberghe, a woman who took part in one of the many protests, at least still believed Trump would have won ‘if every legal vote had been counted’ and tearfully wondered what would happen to her country if Trump’s triumph took end. At the very least, “Downfall” has proven that the latter issue remains relevant, even now that the ex-president has had to step down.
