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In March, 2024 Republican presidential nomination front-runner Trump is scheduled to begin standing trial on federal charges, including conspiracy to defraud the U.S., in connection with efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss. He says the charges against him are politically motivated.
“Democracy on Trial” traces the road to this unprecedented moment, and examines the implications of the historic criminal case unfolding in the midst of a presidential election year. Drawing on court documents and revelatory interviews with elected officials, former government lawyers, House Select Committee witnesses and former committee staffers, authors and journalists, the documentary reports that the work of the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack provided the groundwork for special counsel Jack Smith’s indictment of Trump and may offer insights into how the trial unfolds.
The documentary chronicles how the committee built its case against Trump and tried to prove his intent, how it chose to present its case to the American public, and criticisms of its work. Key witnesses who testified before the committee and whose firsthand accounts are now evidence in the federal case speak out in the documentary — including Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, Georgia election official Gabriel Sterling and former Arizona Speaker of the House Rusty Bowers.
Rusty Bowers served as Arizona’s speaker of the House from 2019-23. He testified before the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol and received a John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage award in 2022.
[media]Bennie Thompson served as the chairman of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol. Thompson has represented Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representative since 1993.[/media]
Soumya Dayananda served as senior investigative counsel for the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol. For more than a decade prior, she was an assistant U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of New York. She is currently a partner at Willkie Farr & Gallagher in Washington, D.C.
Adam Kinzinger was a U.S. representative from Illinois from 2011 until 2023 and was one of two Republicans to serve on the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol. Prior to his election to Congress, Kinzinger served in the Air Force and continues to serve as a pilot in the Air National Guard. He is the author of “Renegade: Defending Democracy and Liberty in Our Divided Country.”
Robert Ray served as a member of President Donald Trump’s legal defense team during the President’s first Senate impeachment trial in 2020. From 1999 to 2002, he led the Office of the Independent Counsel, during which time he investigated and issued a report on the Whitewater controversy.
