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Freed from advisers, and emboldened by his 'exoneration' in the Russia investigation, Trump dives deeper into controversies of his own making, and faces the biggest challenge of his presidency yet. (Part 3 of 4)

Protests, political turmoil, pandemic - the inside story of the extraordinary Trump presidency. Friends and foes tell of Donald Trump's rise from TV star to leader of the free world.

Primary Title
  • The Trump Show
Episode Title
  • The Reckoning
Date Broadcast
  • Monday 2 November 2020
Start Time
  • 20 : 30
Finish Time
  • 21 : 35
Duration
  • 65:00
Episode
  • 3
Channel
  • TVNZ 1
Broadcaster
  • Television New Zealand
Programme Description
  • Protests, political turmoil, pandemic - the inside story of the extraordinary Trump presidency. Friends and foes tell of Donald Trump's rise from TV star to leader of the free world.
Episode Description
  • Freed from advisers, and emboldened by his 'exoneration' in the Russia investigation, Trump dives deeper into controversies of his own making, and faces the biggest challenge of his presidency yet. (Part 3 of 4)
Classification
  • 16
Owning Collection
  • Chapman Archive
Broadcast Platform
  • Television
Languages
  • English
Captioning Languages
  • English
Captions
Live Broadcast
  • No
Rights Statement
  • Made for the University of Auckland's educational use as permitted by the Screenrights Licensing Agreement.
Subjects
  • Documentary television programs--United Kingdom
  • Trump, Donald, 1946---Biography
  • Presidents--United States--Election--2016
  • United States--Politics and government--2017-
Genres
  • Documentary
  • Politics
Father, we just thank you for President Trump. Yes. Lord, if you raise them up for this hour, give America one last-minute reprieve, and we thank you that we're going to see another great spiritual awakening. Thank you, Jesus. Amen. Lord, you would surround him with your fire, your anointing. Yes. Speak to them even in the night hours. Yes. Yes. Lord, they are steps ahead of the enemy. I pray total confusion in the camp of the wicked. Yes. America is rising up. Yes. Thank you, Jesus. Your anointing is upon our president. Thank you. ..supernatural way... Amen. APPLAUSE One day, if someone were to make a movie of your life, who would you see playing yourself? Maybe, uh, maybe myself. Reality television has taken over America. Donald Trump is the reality television king. CROWD MEMBER: We love you, Trump! TRUMP: I love you, too. CHEERING Tremendously entertaining. The guy knows how to put on a show. REPORTERS CLAMOUR Welcome back to the studio. I was put here to do a great job, and that's what I'm doing, and nobody's done a job like I've done. I am the chosen one. I genuinely don't know whether Donald Trump entered the American political arena with a messianic complex. But the president became convinced that he alone could see things for what they really were. There was no real check and balance on the president's behaviour. He is unquestioned, he is...infallible. MUSIC: Requiem In D Minor, K. 626 by Mozart Trump was very focused on the 2020 election. But the 2018 mid-term election scared his pants off. And he was suddenly staring down the possibility that he wasn't going to be re-elected, and the Democrat that he was most afraid of at the time was Joe Biden. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE This is a guy that's unhinged. He is unhinged. This guy, like all bullies, is a coward. He does not want to run against me. So he immediately began to try to determine how he could smear Biden and Biden's reputation prior to the 2020 election. Er, and he landed on the Ukraine. I was called down to the Oval by the president. And it was about the idea that Ukraine had been against his 2016 campaign. Also in some way involved Joe Biden, his then possible, likely opponent in 2020. It was sort of like a bowl of spaghetti to me. I never quite understood what the different connections were. We had a substantial package of security assistance, a quarter of a billion dollars, that was promised to Ukraine, and the president came to the point of saying, "I'm not going to deliver the 250 million, "until I get satisfaction on the investigations of Joe Biden." There was something serious going on here that was going on outside of normal channels. Trump is upstairs in the White House... ..picking up the phone to talk to Ukrainian president, and in the Ukraine they're waiting for the call to come through. Congress had appropriated a chunk of money as military aid for Ukraine, and Trump asked the president to do him a political favour. He said, "All you have to do is announce that "you're looking into the Bidens, and you'll get your aid." The whistle-blower complaint accuses the White House of participating in what some are calling a cover-up. The whistle-blower's allegations are dramatic, claiming the President of the United States is using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 US election. The chief allegations surround Trump's phone call with Ukraine's president, in which Trump asked for an investigation to dig up dirt on Joe Biden. I think it's ridiculous. It's a witch hunt. This has never happened to a president before. There's never been a thing like this before. It's nonsense. We had a very good conversation with the Ukrainian president. The conversation was...was perfect. They tried to take that conversation and make it into a big scandal. The problem was... He keeps talking about his perfect phone call and the perfect transcript and how the whistle-blower complaint is completely wrong and was proved wrong and everybody saw the transcript. A whistle-blower wrote a false narrative of the conversation. The whistle-blower complaint is one of the most stunningly accurate documents that you can have. I mean, it was a very accurate description of the call. This about right? About where I was? Yeah. Rudy Giuliani is fighting back. It comes in the wake of the now-infamous call between Trump and Ukrainian President Zelensky. In that call, Giuliani's name comes up repeatedly as Trump asks for foreign help investigating Democrat Joe Biden. Did you ask the Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden? No. Actually, I didn't. I asked the Ukraine to investigate the allegations that there was interference in the election of 2016... You never asked anything about Hunter Biden? You never asked anything about Joe Biden? The only thing I asked about Joe Biden is to get to the bottom of... So you did ask Ukraine to look into Joe Biden? Of course I did! You just said you didn't! First of all, I didn't investigate Biden. I was investigating the allegations that Biden was involved in a major bribery scheme. So I had to investigate it. I can use it to defend the president. Rudy was like a hand grenade that could go off. Running around Ukraine doing God knows what. He had these conspiracy theories. I never understood these theories, frankly, but the president was following them very closely, and I thought it was a real danger to Trump himself. They said Trump is pressuring the president of the Ukraine. What was he asking him to do? He was asking him to investigate serious allegations of crime. He didn't threaten him. The Democrats are going after the president for a - I consider - perfect conversation, at best a marginal conversation, so you've got to look at that as just complete phoney. And because their Trump derangement syndrome is so bad, they reduce themselves to idiotic theories. Erm, now getting on to the business at hand, I understand it's been a fairly slow news week. LAUGHTER I asked Mick Mulvaney, "Why did they withhold aid to Ukraine? "Why did they do it?" You were directly involved in the decision to withhold funding, uh, from, uh, Ukraine. Can you explain to us now definitively why? President Trump is not a big fan of foreign aid - never has been, still isn't. Did he also mention to me in the past the investigation? Absolutely, no question about that. Er, but that's it, and that's why we held up the money. Now, there was a report... So, the demand for an investigation into the Democrats was part of the reason that he ordered to withhold funding to Ukraine? Yeah. And to my shock, Mulvaney said, "Because he wanted them to investigate the Democrats." I almost fell out of my chair, because they were admitting it. They were admitting it. To be clear, what you just described is a quid pro quo, it is funding will not flow unless the investigation happens as well. We do... We do that all the time with foreign policy. We were holding up money... And not only does he say, "Yes," he says, "Yes, we do it all the time." I have news for everybody. Get over it. There's going to be political influence in foreign policy... REPORTER INTERRUPTS I'm talking, Mr Karl. That was a clearly impeachable offence. The latest bombshell came from Acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney admitting there was indeed a quid pro quo to pressure Ukraine. Mulvaney's words, which he later took back, directly contradicted what the president has been saying for weeks. There was no quid pro quo. There was no quid pro quo. There was no quid pro quo. When you talk for a living, invariably you're going to say something wrong. And that one day, I got it wrong. But it didn't change the merits or the substance. Everything we did was 100% legal. Good afternoon. Last Tuesday, we observed the anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution. Shortly thereafter, press reports began to break of a phone call by the President of the United States calling upon a foreign power to intervene in his election. Therefore, today I'm announcing the House of Representatives is moving forward with an official impeachment enquiry. The president must be held accountable. No-one is above the law. TJ: Have I done enough to wear the jersey? Gotta sweat out that fear because this is bigger than me. I do it for my fans and my family. ION4 hydration. Sweat it out witih Powerade. * If this goes to impeachment, the Senate will vote to either convict or acquit the president. If two thirds of the Senate vote to convict him, the president will be removed from office. Wherever I go, God rules. When I walk on White House grounds, God walks on White House grounds. I have every right and authority to declare the White House as holy ground, because I was standing there, and where I stand is holy. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Paula White, President Trump's televangelist spiritual advisor, is the latest addition to the White House staff. From the start, Donald Trump was not afraid to go to voters and say, "Look, you don't like me. Maybe I don't like you. "But guess what? That's OK. Because here's the deal. "A lot of these politicians, they haven't done a thing for you. "But I, the godless billionaire playboy, with the multiple wives and the porn-star mistress, "will deliver for you people in a way that none of these other folks have." It's been an honour... And so Donald Trump built this alliance with the evangelical community in his run for the presidency. What's your name, sir? Pastor Mark Burns. Where are you from, Mark? South Carolina. The great state of South Carolina. Why do you support Donald Trump? We need a strong leader that's going to, you know, stand for the rights of Christians, the rights of Americans, create jobs... VOICEOVER: I met Donald Trump back in 2015. I was invited to come to a private meeting of about 20-25 of America's top evangelical leaders. Thank you all so much. I'm looking forward to it. Bless you all. As I was about to walk into Trump Towers that very first day, I remember hearing a voice that said, "Something special is going to happen." Donald Trump walks in with his Bible and he began to say things like, "I believe Christianity is under attack." Has he delivered? Absolutely! Oh, my God! Has he delivered? Yes, he's delivered. Donald Trump has placed two Supreme Court conservative justices on the nation's highest bench. Before that, we're swinging way left. Number two - he's pushing for prayer back into schools. The president also made it very clear that transgenders don't have a place in the military. We have an advocate, we have someone in the White House that's going to speak for us. Committee will come to order. Do you swear or affirm that the testimony you're about to give is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you God? As the impeachment process was going on, we know the enemy is up to no good, and so therefore we have to pray. Let's pray together, may we? Father, your word says if your people who are called by your name will humble themselves and pray... We're in the Oval Office, and I'm right behind President Trump and we are laying hands. Father, we just thank you for President Trump. Thank you, Jesus. Lord, if you raise them up for this hour, give America one last-minute reprieve, and we thank you that we're going to see... Several times have we done this, and we have told him that he is the chosen one to be the leader of the United States of America in this time. Was there a quid pro quo? The answer is yes. I was holding video conference calls where we had 50 to 60,000 people that were joining in, offering their prayers for Donald Trump in the midst of this impeachment trial, creating a force field around him. So you're acknowledging Ukraine very much felt pressured to undertake these investigations? Yes, sir. You felt the power of God inside the Oval Office. I believe the Democrats are tearing this country apart. When Jesus was falsely accused of treason, Pontius Pilate afforded more rights to Jesus than the Democrats have afforded this president. The president did nothing wrong in this issue. Republicans knew this wasn't right, but there was also a calculation that was made very early on, which is that their political, uh, fortunes are tied in part to Donald Trump's political fortunes. It's a sham, a witch hunt and it's tantamount to a coup. I see coming up a president who will put his head down, even through this sham impeachment, and he will do his job, he will put the American people first. As a lifelong Republican, it was devastating to see how the president had gotten such a vice-like grip on the Republican Party, so much so that members of Congress, who in private will say, "I think the president is crazy," but in public are too afraid to go against him... Cos the president likes to use lots of little dog whistles. So if someone speaks out against him, he likes to say, wink and a nod, "Maybe my Trump trolls should go after them." So people actually feel afraid for their security and their safety if they criticise the president. Basically, Republicans decide, almost to a person, "We're with him." Two thirds of the senators present not having pronounced him guilty, the Senate adjudges that the respondent, Donald John Trump, President of the United States, is not guilty as charged and he is hereby acquitted of the charges in said articles. Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States. CHEERING Thank you very much. Thank you. We've all been through a lot together, and we probably deserve that hand for all of us, because it's been a very unfair situation. Did nothing wrong. I've done things wrong in my life, I will admit. LAUGHTER Not purposefully, but I've done things wrong. But this is what the end result is. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE You can take that home, honey. Maybe we'll frame it. LAUGHTER It's the only good headline I've ever had in the Washington Post. LAUGHTER It was all...bullshit. Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you. Thank you very much. MUSIC: All I Do Is Win by DJ Khaled, feat. Ludacris, Rick Ross, T-Pain & Snoop Dogg # All I do is win, win, win No matter what # Got money on my mind I can never get enough # And every time I step up in the building # Everybody's hands go up! # You could just see how happy he was. # And they stay there And they stay there # And they stay there # Up, down, up, down # Cos all I do is win, win, win # And if you're going in # Put your hands in the air Make them stay there # Ludacris goin' in on the verse # Cos I never been defeated and I won't stop now # Keep your hands up, get 'em in the sky # For the homies that didn't make it and my folks locked down... # Members of Congress, three years ago, we launched the great American comeback. Confidence is surging and our country is highly respected again. CHEERING # All I do is win, win, win No matter what # Got money on my mind I can never have enough... # But everybody knew that, really, the trial was still out. The real trial is election day, November 2020. And, my fellow Americans, the best is yet to come. Thank you, God bless you and God bless America. Thank you very much. CHEERING * 2020 is shaping up to be a really good year for the president. He's acquitted from the impeachment trial and the economy's strong, but suddenly all of that changes virtually overnight. The World Health Organization tonight has raised its risk assessment of coronavirus to very high as clusters of the disease appear in more and more countries. The CDC said yesterday that they believe it's inevitable that the virus will spread in the United States and it's not a question of if but when. Do you agree with that assessment? Well, I don't think it's inevitable. It probably will, it possibly will. It could be at a very small level or it could be at a larger level. Whatever happens, we're totally prepared. Back now with breaking news on the latest strain of coronavirus. We're getting word just now that Rhode Island has its first presumptive case of the virus. Officials there say the patient is in the hospital. They're reaching out to people who have been in contact with this patient, who recently returned from Italy. The American health industry knew that Covid-19 was coming, but the president did not take it seriously. We're... We have a very small number of people in the country right now with it - it's like around 12. Many of them are getting better, some are fully recovered already. He is downplaying the threat of the coronavirus to a dangerous degree. It's going to disappear one day. It's like a miracle, it will disappear. Since the weekend, cases have popped up across the country, including Florida, New York and New Hampshire. The second US fatality was a man from a nursing facility near Seattle. Researchers say the virus may have been circulating for weeks undetected in Washington State. We know he was amply warned. He chose not to take action. You know, it would have been a crisis that would have been difficult for any president to manage. But it was especially difficult for Trump because he lives with this magical thinking that anything that's in opposition to him he can eventually overcome. The message we've chosen today was delivered on January 25th, 1987. It is entitled Positive Thinking Works Wonders. Here is Dr Norman Vincent Peale. Positive thinking works wonders. No longer negatively defeated. Hopeful. Optimistic. Victorious. Donald Trump, for decades, has been obsessed with a book called The Power Of Positive Thinking, written by self-help guru Norman Vincent Peale. And this has been, in many ways, Trump's road map to life. You know, the greatest speaker I think I've ever witnessed was Dr Norman Vincent Peale. He'd talk about success stories and people that were successful, and you hated to leave church cos you wanted him to go on further. There was a real family relationship there. In fact, they grew so close that Peale wound up officiating Donald Trump's first wedding. And a key precept of that book is essentially if you believe that nothing bad is happening to you, then nothing bad is happening to you. That is so central to understanding the Trump psyche. One of my people came up to me and said, "Mr President, they tried to beat you on Russia, Russia, Russia. "That didn't work out too well. "They couldn't do it. "They tried the impeachment hoax. "That was on a perfect conversation." BOOING "They tried anything, they tried it over and over, "they've been doing it since you got in. It's all turning. "They lost. It's all turning. Think of it. Think of it. "And this is their new hoax." I had a meeting with him in the Oval Office in March. He comes in and he's like, "Shall we shake hands?" He's like, "Yeah, what can I get from you? Come on!" And he comes and gives me a big handshake. I mean, it was almost like a joke. Medical staff across the country have been warning of dire shortages of protective equipment. Well, this is a war zone. We're trying to keep our head above water and not drown. The Department of Homeland Security, we had written the playbook on how to handle a nationwide pandemic. We built this very elaborate system to lead every single piece of the response, from health to security to safety, so that the US government would be able to spring into action like that and protect the American people. We need these ventilators now. If I don't have the ventilators in 14 days, people die. We've already got the biggest epidemic on Earth, more than 7,000 people dead. There's now a Navy hospital ship docked in the Hudson River, another 1,000 beds. Those playbooks were on the shelf in 2019 at the end of the year. The president threw out the playbook on day one. * Our country wasn't built to be shut down. Ultimately, the goal is to ease the guidelines and open things up to very large sections of our country as we near the end of our historic battle with the invisible enemy. America will again be open for business. I said earlier today that I hope we can do this by Easter. I think that would be a great thing for our country... The coronavirus presented a difficult problem to Donald Trump. He really knew that if he took strong action to lock down the United States, it would have an effect on the economy. And going into the 2020 election, his ace in the hole for winning was to say, "I've delivered a strong economy to you," and the coronavirus comes along and upends all that, and Trump can't control it. Mr President, you just reiterated that you hoped to have the country reopened by Easter. My question is - you have two doctors on stage with you - have either of them told you that's a realistic timeline? I think we're looking at a timeline, we're discussing it, we had a very good meeting today. You suggested Easter. Who suggested that? I just thought it was a beautiful time, a beautiful time, a beautiful timeline. That's really very flexible. We just had a conversation with the president in the Oval Office, talking about, you know, you can look at a date, but you've got to be very flexible and on a literally day-by-day and week-by-week basis. When you look at the country, obviously no-one is going to want to tone down things when you see what's going on in a place like New York City. I mean, that's just... I mean, that's not going to happen. It's going to be looking at the data. Donald Trump's always looked down on expertise. Fauci embodied a number of problems for Trump. Would you prefer a 14-day just sort of national shutdown to slow this down? You know, I would prefer, as much as we possibly could. I think we should really be overly aggressive and get criticised for over-reacting. He wasn't willing to completely toe the line and say whatever Trump wanted him to say. Fauci gave factual, practical information that the American public could act on. Is it possible that your impulse to put a positive spin on things may be giving Americans a false sense of hope? No, I don't think so. What do you say to Americans who are watching you right now who are scared? Er, I say that you're a terrible reporter, that's what I say. Go ahead. VOICEOVER: As it becomes clear that this not something that's just going to go away, the president finds that there's no amount of Norman Vincent Peale that can assuage the doubt that is beginning to wash over him. You can see it in his face, you can hear it in his voice as he begins to lash out at anyone and everyone. Your second question was? I couldn't hear you. Can you take it up? I cannot hear you. I'll just speaker louder, sir. OK, good. You want to be politically correct. Go ahead. No, sir. I just want to wear the mask. Go ahead, go ahead. Hi, everyone. I work for Costco and I'm asking this member to put on a mask, cos that is our company policy. It's either wear the mask... And I'm not doing it, cos I woke up in a free country. The trust in conventional science, experts, what is truth has been eroded. America is so divided that it's even become divided over a mask. So wearing a mask is now not being seen as a public health issue, it's being seen as being, are you part of the politically correct liberal elite? Now, that is not a good public health message. Pigs! Democratic pigs, all of you! That man harassed me for not wearing a mask! Back off! Back off! You need to leave. In Jesus Christ's mighty name! No! Get off this aisle! You are a demon! VOICEOVER: He has encouraged divisiveness to a remarkable degree. INDISTINCT SHOUTING It is not the law! It's not law. It is the law. It's not a law, it is an order. He tells Americans that they should liberate themselves from the stay-at-home orders that his own administration advocated. He tells Americans that they really don't have to wear masks, even as his government is telling them that they should. It's breath-taking. He had the opportunity to be a war-time president, but a war-time president leads. And what the president didn't do was lead. Instead, much of the response devolved into political infighting and personal attacks. I can't imagine if, during World War II, Winston Churchill went on TV and said, "My generals are shit. I don't believe them, I don't trust anyone, "and also, by the way, Britons, next time there's an air raid, feel free to go to the market, "don't worry about it, you'll be fine." Well, I think... I mean, I think he handled it very well. I don't really know how it is that he didn't handle it correctly. In our country, the president doesn't run hospitals, right? The federal government can put out general guidelines, and then the states have to interpret it. It was clearly being spread by China. As Americans, we should agree that we were victimised by China. Maybe they wanted... Maybe they wanted to impeach him for inventing the virus or something. Who knows? Thank you very much. So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous, uh, whether it's ultraviolet, or just very powerful light, and I think you said that hasn't been checked, but you're going to test it. And then I said, "Supposing you brought the light inside the body," which you can do, either through the skin or... ..in some other way, and I think you said you're going to test that, too. Sounds interesting. Right? And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, erm, by injection inside or almost a cleaning? Cos you see, it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it'd be interesting to check that, so that you're going to have to use medical doctors with, but it sounds... It sounds interesting to me. And today, we are expecting to cross that 100,000 threshold, 100,000 Americans to have lost their lives. You will be seeing - and we should not be surprised - is that deaths continue to go up. But as I mentioned to this group and to the general public multiple times, there really is a cascading of events where you have new cases, hospitalisations, intensive care and deaths. So at the same time that we may be seeing an increase in deaths... VOICE FADES OUT DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS We must utilise our nation's scientific brilliance to vanquish the "viwus". The...coron-ah-virus treatment accelerator programme, which is...expediting the development of new anti-ri...anti-viral and other therapies, and they're doing it on a very rapid basis... DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS OVER SPEECH I can't breathe! Please, your knee on my neck. I can't breathe, shit. Well, get up and get in the car, man! I will. Get up and get in the car. Mama! Oh... Bro, he's not even fucking moving! Get off of his fucking neck, bro! Get off of his neck! You're still on him! We're all covering the Covid-19 crisis. We're all covering any other manner of breaking news that's happening. And then there's word of this...death. And my wife and other people said, "Have you seen this video?" You saw a man... ..pleading for his life. And it shocked the country, the conscience of the nation. People of all races, different ages, saying, "That's not the America that we want." CROWD SHOUTS CROWD CHANTS: I can't breathe! I can't breathe! I can't breathe! I can't breathe! Say his name! George Floyd! Say his name! George Floyd! This is 400 years we have been dealing with systemic racism. It has to be a systemic change. CROWD CHANTS: Throw him out! Throw him out! Throw him out! Throw him out! Throw him out! Throw him out! When the president looks out his windows at the White House and sees a crowd that is swelling bigger and bigger, he does not like the imagery of that... ..that the White House is surrounded by people chanting and holding signs and marching in a way that is a rebuke, in some sense, of his own administration. Things were looking bad for Donald Trump. The polls showed Joe Biden with a huge lead, some of them a double-digit lead. The vast majority of the protests were peaceful, but there were violent actors, and Trump figures he could latch on to that. That gave Donald Trump something he could campaign on - law and order. TRUMP: In recent days, our nation has been gripped by professional anarchists, violent mobs, arsonists, looters, criminals, rioters. As we speak, I am dispatching thousands and thousands of heavily armed soldiers and law enforcement officers to stop the rioting, looting, vandalism, assaults and the wanton destruction of property. CROWD SHOUTS Nobody was doing anything. They pulled in, they opened fire, Look at them - they're aiming their fire now, they're working towards us... Get back, get back, get back! You're hit, you're hit! He's hit! That is peaceful protesting. And, you know, we're going to back up BLEEP a little BLEEP. Our producer got hit! All right, all right. Well, I think he supported peaceful protest. He supported peaceful protests around the White House, he supported peaceful protest. I don't think there's been an over...thing of federal force on this. There's been a lack of federal force. I don't think he's done enough and it's not in trying to be a fascist, right? It's in saying, "Hey, we've gotta have some semblance of order here." CHUCKLES: Yes! (TABLET KEYBOARD CLICKS) This for the car? No. (UPBEAT MUSIC) Yeah? (DOG GRUMBLES) Nooo. (FLOOR SQUEAKS) (HUMS SOFTLY) 'Zero rhythm?' (PHONE CHIMES) Yeah? Nah. (GRUNTS) (SCOFFS) (DOG BARKS) Take a right. No, you want to go left. * CROWD CHANTS: Black lives matter! Black lives matter! Black lives matter! Black lives matter! I was a staff priest at St John's Lafayette Square right across the street from the White House. I had worked at St John's for two years. The whole patio of St John's Lafayette Square was really this little meeting space. It was upbeat and hopeful. You know? Just this huge diversity of humanity coming together. It was a safe space. But suddenly the whole mood changed. Everyone, forward! CANISTERS EXPLODE I suddenly saw people running from the park. SHOUTING Move back now! Move back! And there was a wall of police driving people off of the patio of the church. This is peaceful! This is peaceful, and yet they still don't care! CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICK SIRENS WAIL Is that your Bible? It's a Bible. Your Bible? Holding up the Bible in that space was also a gesture towards this experience of Christianity that is so foreign from my own, this dangerous Christian nationalism that... ..worships power... ..that sees this president as chosen by God. SIRENS IN DISTANCE It has always been dangerous to marry religious fervour with political power, and...so offensive. It's just sacrilege to hold up these sacred scriptures when you had just driven people away with violence. OK, thank you very much. We have the greatest country in the world. Thank you very much, everybody. Keep it nice and safe. Just hold it. Guys, guys, hold right here. Hold right here. CHEERING From the moment I left my former life behind, and it was a good life... LAUGHTER ..I have done nothing but fight for you. I did what our political establishment never expected and could never forgive, breaking the cardinal rule of Washington politics - I kept my promise. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Donald Trump as president has attacked and undermined the American intelligence community, has undermined the American law enforcement community, has undermined the judicial system. When you make it your mission as president to demolish all of these other institutions of American life... ..then you can't be surprised when you find the country racked with turmoil and upheaval, and that's where we are today. # The baffled king composing Hallelujah # Hallelujah # Hallelujah... # No justice! No peace! No justice! No peace! No justice! No peace! Fall back! ALARM BLARES Vehicles lined up in their hundreds to form a pro-Trump caravan. Police responded to violent scenes, ending in a deadly shooting. GUNSHOTS People might have thought that electing someone who was a businessman would have been something of an experiment. MUSIC OVER SPEECH If you weren't that happy with how politics had been going before, "Let's try something new." How do I think it's played out? SHE SCOFFS Um... Donald Trump is a star. He's an icon, he's a magnet, he's an American success story. And, you know, he may be a bad person, but he's our bad person. Donald Trump is a man who does not understand, at least most of the time, that he is lying. He believes everyone else is lying and, you know, this is the larceny in his soul. What did Pontius Pilate say? "What is truth?" Mr President, how many staff are sick? CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICK You'll see him, uh, shortly. He's... He's back. CHEERING This is quite an unbelievable scene. The president, who's being treated for coronavirus, has just come down this busy road. All traffic has been cleared. This is really a pretty amazing photo op that we've been seeing. The Marine One about to land on the South Lawn of the White House. Quite extraordinary, quite the most unbelievable thing. GRANDIOSE MUSIC PLAYS TRUMP: Don't let it dominate you. Don't be afraid of it. Don't let it take over your lives. Get out there. Be careful. And I know there's a risk, there's a danger, but that's OK. Nobody that's a leader would not do what I did. I led. MUSIC STOPS ABRUPTLY
Subjects
  • Documentary television programs--United Kingdom
  • Trump, Donald, 1946---Biography
  • Presidents--United States--Election--2016
  • United States--Politics and government--2017-