A Storm Foretold

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2023

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A look at American conservative Roger Stone's role as an adviser to Donald Trump during his 2016 presidential campaign. The programme also examines the Make America Great Again movement, as well as the January 6 United States Capitol attack, which guided Trump's presidential period to an end point

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David Brown

It’s hard not to come away from this profile of the political fixer Roger Stone feeling the past is just prologue; that while the machinations of this ally of Donald Trump failed to overturn the results of the presidential election in 2020, his efforts set the stage for what’s now happening in the US.

Just consider Trump’s gut reaction to chant “Fight!” in the wake of the recent attempt on his life — it’s a word Stone often uses here, too, as his Stop the Steal sloganeering fuels an attack on the steps of the US Capitol on 6 January 2021. The instincts of this lubricious operator were to distance himself from the riot, but for the Republican party at large, the magnetic pull of Trump proved more difficult to resist.

Followers of American society may also want to catch Kyle: the Gunman Who Divided America, a doc about gun-rights activist Kyle Rittenhouse (postponed due to events in Pennsylvania) at 9.00pm on BBC2, while an archive episode of The World’s Most Photographed (11.30pm, BBC4) charts the strategies employed to conceal JFK’s ill health.

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rolenameNarratorChristoffer GuldbrandsenDirectorChristoffer GuldbrandsenProducerChristoffer GuldbransenProducerPeter EngelProducerHenrik Veileborg

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2023-01-01

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