FRONTLINE: Lies, Politics and Democracy

Premieres Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS Video App

An epic examination of Trump’s affect on the Republican Get together, the alternatives made by key gamers and social gathering leaders, and the mounting threats to American democracy

This September, forward of the 2022 midterm elections and amid persevering with false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump, FRONTLINE will start its new season with the gorgeous, two-hour particular premiere of “Lies, Politics and Democracy.”

From veteran FRONTLINE filmmaker Michael Kirk and his award-winning crew, the documentary is supported by Preserving Democracy, a public media initiative from The WNET Group. An examination of the profound and mounting threats to American democracy, “Lies, Politics and Democracy” tracks main political choices remodeled the previous seven years and lays naked the deep fissures that resulted.

“The movie paperwork how Republican leaders made choices over years that culminated within the Jan. 6 assault on Congress,” says Kirk. “However we additionally found that the choices made by those self same leaders after the assault had been much more consequential within the ongoing menace to our democracy.”

The documentary presents startling new particulars from GOP insiders on how the indulgence of Trump’s authoritarian impulses and embrace of his rhetoric enabled his energy over the American political system, main the nation to this precarious second. Instructed partly by means of the views of key Republican gamers and social gathering leaders, the two-hour particular offers first-person accounts from those that sounded the alarm about Trump, and people whose warnings had been minimized or silenced all alongside the best way.

“Lies, Politics and Democracy” attracts on greater than 30 new and revealing interviews with former authorities officers, political journalists and consultants. Amongst these, conservative “By no means Trumpers” Bill Kristol and Mona Charen describe witnessing the GOP’s early capitulation to Trump; former members of Congress Mark Sanford (R-S.C.) and Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) weigh in on their early fears about Trump’s political technique; and U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), former federal Decide J. Michael Luttig and former White Home Director of Strategic Communications Alyssa Farah Griffin expose what actually unfolded amongst Trump’s interior circle throughout and after the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol.

The movie additionally attracts on the insights of two famend journalists, Tim Alberta and Jelani Cobb, who collaborated with the movie’s producers and spent years documenting an unprecedented second in American historical past.

From the acclaimed crew behind greater than 15 documentaries chronicling Trump’s affect on American politics — together with “Trump’s American Carnage”, “The Choice 2020: Trump vs. Biden” and “Trump’s Takeover” — “Lies, Politics and Democracy” gives a meticulous and unflinching examination of selections remodeled years and persevering with threats to American democracy.

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“Lies, Politics and Democracy” will probably be out there to observe in full at pbs.org/frontline and within the PBS Video App beginning Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022, at 7/6c. It is going to be out there on FRONTLINE’s YouTube channel at 9/8c.

You too can watch all FRONTLINE episodes on-line at https://video.kpbs.org/show/frontline/

Dozens of interviews with sources from the making of “Lies, Politics and Democracy” will probably be printed on FRONTLINE’s web site as a part of FRONTLINE’s ongoing Transparency Project.

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A FRONTLINE manufacturing with the Kirk Documentary Group. The director is Michael Kirk. The producers are Michael Kirk, Mike Wiser and Vanessa Fica. The writers are Michael Kirk and Mike Wiser. The reporters are Vanessa Fica, Tim Alberta and Jelani Cobb. The editor-in-chief and govt producer of FRONTLINE is Raney Aronson-Rath. Distributed internationally by PBS International.