President Donald Trump, Congressman Eduardo Bolsonaro and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro meet at G20, in Japan. (Photo: Reproduction/Instagram/@Bolsonarosp)
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is now leading a struggle for justice reminiscent of President Trump’s legal travails under the Biden regime – with the 70-year-old Bolsonaro facing a 39-year prison sentence from the same corrupt Supreme Court that released current Brazilian president Luiz Lula da Silva from prison on dubious grounds.
In 2018, a Brazilian Appeals Court sentenced then-former President Lula to 12 years in prison for corruption and money laundering charges regarding Lula’s key role in “Operation Car Wash.” Lula was found to have accepted upwards of $1M USD in bribes from a construction company that, in turn, received contracts from a notorious state-owned oil company.
Although Lula was once himself sentenced to prison until 2030, his political opponent, Jair Bolsonaro, is today banned from seeking public office until 2030. Lula served barely over one year of his prison sentence before the Brazilian Supreme Court brazenly ruled that convicted criminals no longer must serve prison time after losing their first appeals case – freeing Lula to depart prison in 2019 while seeking further appeals.
In 2022, Lula defeated Bolsonaro in Brazil’s presidential election by a narrow margin, leading to protests by hundreds of thousands of Bolsonaro’s supporters on grounds that Lula’s prison sentence had been unjustly annulled and that machine voting fraud could not be ruled out according to a statement issued by Brazil’s Defense Ministry.
In the wake of these protests, Bolsonaro, dubbed “Trump of the Tropics,” has been stripped of his ability to run for president in 2026 – while Lula’s approval rating has cratered to a career-low of 24 percent.
Last week, shortly after Brazil’s Supreme Federal Tribunal ruled that Bolsonaro must stand trial. He faces up to 39 years in prison for his alleged coup attempt against the convicted criminal, Lula.
Bolsonaro told reporters,”Everyone knows that if I were allowed to run, I would win.”
“The coup [Lula’s government] has no law, no rules – the coup has a conspiracy with the press, parliament, the judiciary, the economy – armed forces first, society, businessmen, and farmers,” Bolsonaro continued.
Bolsonaro told the media regarding his possible prison sentence,
“It’s the end of my life. I’m already 70 years old.”
“A possible arrest would be completely unjust. Where is my crime? Where did I break [the law]? Where is the proof of a possible coup? Other than discussing constitutional provisions that haven’t left the realm of words,” Bolsonaro added.
On the War Room podcast, populist firebrand Steve Bannon recently advised Bolsonaro to seek asylum in the United States, at all costs, even while Bolsonaro’s passport remains under siege by the Brazilian government.
The stakes of Bolsonaro’s personal freedom – and territorial control of Brazil – are simply too high, Bannon warned, for Bolsonaro to spend his life in prison or even sooner be murdered.
Bolsonaro could instead maneuver to join his son, Eduardo Bolsonaro, who recently gained a safe haven in the United States while building popular support for their movement abroad.
When asked in March whether he would consider seeking political asylum in the United States, however, Jair Bolsonaro said, “Zero, zero, zero. I look good here. I feel good. I want the good of my country.”
Under the very rogue Brazilian Supreme Court that enabled CCP-backed Lula’s communist takeover of Brazil, Bolsonaro’s only hope for restitution may be martyrdom.
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