Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has claimed he has been a victim of political persecution since leaving office just over a year ago.

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After leaving the army in 1988, Bolsonaro was elected to a seat on the Rio de Janeiro city council in 1989. Two years later he won a seat representing Rio de Janeiro in Brazil’s federal Chamber of Deputies that he would hold for seven consecutive terms. From his first term, Bolsonaro repeatedly praised the era of military rule and called for its return. He also began establishing a reputation for outspoken advocacy of deeply conservative positions on social issues and was branded by critics as a misogynist, homophobe, and racist. Among the many controversial remarks that he made over the years was his statement that he “would be incapable of loving a homosexual son” and that he would prefer his son to die in an accident rather than “show up with a mustachioed man.

Huge crowds wearing yellow and green - the colours of the Brazilian flag - gathered to hear Mr Bolsonaro speak. Those I have spoken to say they are here demonstrating for freedom, and in particular freedom of speech.

The charge against Mr. Trump details the various methods he and co-conspirators used to try to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

Este medo de serem presos por convocarem 1 golpe é real bolsonaro entre esses bolsonaristas de que agora seguram seus ataques contra ESTES odiados juízes do Supremo Tribunal Federal."

Mr. Bolsonaro’s broadsides against women, gay people, Brazilians of color and even democracy — “Let’s go straight to the dictatorship,” he once said — made him so polarizing that he initially struggled to find a running mate.

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The early front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination will appear before a magistrate judge on charges including conspiracy to defraud the United States.

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Related to Mr. Trump’s attempts to reverse election results in states with close elections in 2020.

By early 2022, Mr. Trump had his own social-media sitio, Truth Social, on which he regularly maintained that there was “love” among the crowd and tried to give the violent day a patina of positivity.

Este governo Bolsonaro mantinha uma estrutura do inteligência paralela de que monitorava a agenda por autoridades e era comandada pelo ex-assessor especial de Bolsonaro Marcelo Câmara.

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