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Bolsonaro endorses Trump coup, threatens to do same in Brazil’s 2022 election
Brazil’s fascistic President Jair Bolsonaro, one of Donald Trump’s most fervent international supporters, has unequivocally endorsed the January 6 coup attempt in Washington. He has already announced his intention to use the same lies about electoral fraud in Brazil to mobilize his supporters in a bid to remain in power, whatever the results of the 2022 presidential elections.
Brazil s President Jair Bolsonaro (Credit: Agência Brasil)
In his typical contemptuous fashion, Bolsonaro declared on the evening of January 6, in response to the US developments: “I followed everything. You know I’m connected to Trump. You know my answer. Now, [there have been] a lot of fraud charges, a lot of fraud charges.” He then repeated his own unsubstantiated claims about the 2018 election in Brazil: “Mine was defrauded. I have proof of it. I should have won in the first round.”