How Republican leaders helped an election lie catch fire | “Lies, politics and democracy” | FIRST LINE

Top party leaders allowed the lie that the 2020 election was stolen to take root, Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Illinois) and others told FRONTLINE — part of a pattern of accommodation with then-President Donald Trump going back several years, the new documentary “Lies, Politics and Democracy,” reports. Watch a clip. This journalism is made possible by viewers like you. Support your local PBS station here: http://www.pbs.org/donate. “Lies, Politics and Democracy,” a two-hour documentary special on threats to American democracy, will be broadcast in full on Tuesday, September 6, on PBS and online. learn more: https://to.pbs.org/3Bjt9zg “Lies, Politics and Democracy” is a FRONTLINE production with the Kirk Documentary Group. Producers are Michael Kirk, Mike Wiser and Vanessa Fica. screenwriters are Michael Kirk and Mike Wiser. The journalists are Vanessa Fica, Tim Alberta and Jelani Cobb. FRONTLINE’s editor-in-chief and executive producer is Raney Aronson-Rath. #Trump #Biden #Democracy Find FRONTLINE on the PBS Video App, where more than 300 of our documentaries can be viewed anytime: https://to.pbs.org/FLVideoApp Subscribe on YouTube: http:// bit.ly/ 1BycsJW Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/frontlinepbs Twitter: https://twitter.com/frontlinepbs Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/frontline FRONTLINE is produced at GBH in Boston and is broadcast nationwide on PBS. FRONTLINE is funded by support from PBS viewers and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Additional support for FRONTLINE is provided by the Abrams Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Park Foundation, and the FRONTLINE Journalism Fund, with major support from Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L Foundation . Hagler, and additional support from Koo and Patricia Yuen. Funding for Lies, Politics and Democracy is provided by the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation and WNET Group’s Preserving Democracy, a public media initiative.

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