Brazil is having its own Jan. 6-style insurrection after Balsonaro supporters stormed the country's congressional building, the Supreme Court, and the Planalto Presidential Palace. Meanwhile, Bolsonaro's inner circle members are meeting with advisers to former president Donald Trump to discuss next steps. Drain the swamp fabulists are busy trying to put Brazil's corrupt former President back in power. You'll be very familiar with their names.
The Washington Post reports:
Brazilian congressman Eduardo Bolsonaro, the President's son, has visited Florida since the Oct. 30 vote, meeting Trump at Mar-a-Lago and strategizing with other political allies by phone. He spoke with former Trump strategist Stephen K. Bannon, who was in Arizona assisting the campaign of GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, about the power of the pro-Bolsonaro protests and potential challenges to the Brazilian election results, Bannon said. He lunched in South Florida with former Trump campaign spokesman Jason Miller, now CEO of the social media company Gettr, and discussed online censorship and free speech, Miller said.
Via Mother Jones:
Steve Bannon and others involved in the January 6, 2021 attack on Congress lauded supporters of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro as they stormed government buildings in their capital on Sunday. The cheerleading showed that far-right supporters of Donald Trump's Big Lie are not merely unrepentant but eager to continue exporting their opposition to democratic norms.
"Brazilian Freedom Fighters," Bannon, wrote Sunday on the right-wing social media app Gettr. His comment follows months of vocal support on his War Room podcast for Bolsonaro supporters who have camped out in Brazil to protest his defeat in October's elections. Bannon has said that he is directly advising the former President's son, Brazilian congressman Eduardo Bolsonaro. The younger Bolsonaro has touted Bannon's calls for his father, who is reportedly now in Florida, not to accept defeat.
No one is surprised that Bannon is all over this. The same goes for the other conservatives, and likely Donald J. Trump, too. After all, he's probably touching his little mushroom while watching the scene unfold as Balsonaro supporters smash everything in sight while breaking through windows and doors.
