- Steve Bannon hyped the protesters who stormed Brazil’s Congress, calling them “independence fighters.”
- The former Trump advisor has prolonged stoked unsubstantiated rumors of election fraud in Brazil.
- Bannon has seized on the issue in the exact way he did with Trump’s personal election fraud claims.
Steve Bannon cheered on Brazilian demonstrators who stormed the country’s Congress on Sunday, immediately after he continued to stoke election fraud claims there.
Bannon shared a movie that confirmed protesters pouring into the congressional developing in Brasilia on alt-appropriate social media system Gettr, labeling them “Brazilian flexibility fighters.”
The assault, which lasted a few hours, spilled through the country’s nationwide congress, its Supreme Court docket, and its presidential palace, Reuters documented, in scenes that bore unique echoes of the riot at the US Capitol two many years back.
—Renato Souza (@reporterenato) January 8, 2023
The assault was the most up-to-date incident because former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro missing his election in a tightly-fought race to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, also identified just as Lula, in October final 12 months.
Months ahead of the election, Bolsonaro sowed rumors of voter fraud, in moves starkly equivalent to those people manufactured by previous President Donald Trump and allies this sort of as Steve Bannon.
Currently Bannon, a previous Trump advisor, has also amped unevidenced statements of election fraud in Brazil.
In November, Bannon spoke with Brazilian congressman and Bolsonaro’s son Eduardo during the latter’s visit to Mar-a-Lago, The Washington Post reported.
Bannon advised the paper that they mentioned likely troubles to the election outcomes and the impact of pro-Bolsonaro protests. He also said, per the paper: “The [Brazilian] individuals are declaring they have been grossly disenfranchised.”
All over the same time, the young Bolsonaro also shared a online video on Twitter in which Bannon proposed that Brazil’s digital elections method had been established up to empower fraud.
A assessment by Brazil’s navy late previous calendar year located no credible evidence of common election fraud, in accordance to The New York Periods.
Nonetheless, a proviso in the overview — that Brazil’s electronic method meant that a precise fraud state of affairs could not be definitively ruled out — has been seized on by Bolsonaro supporters, the Situations reported.
