Bolsonaro is applauded and hears a chain scream in flight on Gol’s Harry Potter ship – 03/30/2023 – Politics

After three months living half an hour from Disney, Jair Bolsonaro (PL) is back. He arrived this Thursday (30) in the country he left two days before completing his term, disgusted with Lula’s (PT) victory. The former president landed at 6:38 am in Brasília, the end of a season in Florida in which he lived in a comfort zone that is unlikely to be reproduced in his homeland.

The last few hours on American soil were kind to him. At the Orlando airport, he received many approaches, almost all sympathetic to him. A woman cried at the opportunity to hug him.

The ex-manager won applause when he got on a Gol airliner, the “Harry Potter ship”, with its armor covered by scenes from the wizard’s saga. Only a hostile voice broke the friendly mood, with a single cry: “Jail!”.

Bolsonaro waited for the flight to depart at the Premium Plaza Lounge, the terminal’s VIP space. He stayed in an area at the back, separated from the others by a sign that read “reserved”. He posed for photos with three Azul employees, excited by his presence. He snacked on a peanut butter cookie and coffee sweetened with a sugar packet.

More bitter was his reaction to repeated attempts by the reporter to hear what he had to say about his return from Brazil and some ghosts that haunt him. Among them, the possibility of being convicted in one of the several investigations that he is the target of and the summons of the Federal Police to testify in the coming days about the millionaire jewels that Saudi Arabia gave as a gift to the then first lady Michelle Bolsonaro, in 2021 .

Before going through the x-ray, Bolsonaro had already told the Sheet he didn’t want to talk, not even with a Globo reporter who was also waiting for him. “You spoke a lot about me, now, in the elections”, he justified. New attacks by the press were ignored. At the most, he managed to smile, and nothing else, when asked to give a score of 0 to 10 to the Lula government. At one point, one of the advisors who accompanied him put up a screen to block the journalists’ view.

Sérgio Rocha Cordeiro, who served as his special advisor in the Presidency, said that he would only grant an interview in live format, because otherwise his words could be distorted.

With CNN, Bolsonaro was more generous. He spoke with the station’s reporter for about half an hour, in a real-time broadcast conducted in the lounge.

He spoke badly of the PT’s successor and the MST. He said he did not intend to “lead any opposition”, but rather “collaborate with those who so wish”. He also suggested that he should go in person to testify to the PF about the gift from the Saudis.

Sitting in the first row of business class, next to advisor Sergio, the former president accepted a glass of sparkling wine offered by the flight attendant. Then he chose to accompany dinner, a plate of gnocchi à sugo, a little Seival white wine, vintage 2022.

A trip to the bathroom resulted in some interruptions for another round of photos with at least 30 people. Economy class passengers queued up to secure their portrait after breakfast, bread and cheese and roast beef.

Investor and businessman Rafael Danigno, 38, asked him about an alternative: Luiz Felipe D’Ávila’s voter in the first round, and Bolsonaro’s in the second, wanted to know if he would be willing to support, in the next election, a name with less resistance by the media.

Thus, he explained, the risk of the left remaining in power would fall. The governors Tarcísio de Freitas (Republicanos-SP) and Romeu Zema (Novo-MG), let’s say. Two excellent options.

Bolsonaro responded, according to Danigno, who is open and added: it is very difficult to survive in the chair he sat in for four years.

Bolsonaro traveled to Florida two days before completing his term. He circumvented, therefore, the passage of the presidential sash to his great rival, Lula, a democratic rite.

He spent his first quarter as former president in a condominium in Kissimmee, a town near Disney. He initially stayed at the home of UFC fighter José Aldo, an admirer of his.

Even before Bolsonaro’s stay, the address had already appeared in the news, with emphasis on its decoration: games room, cinema room and nine bedrooms. One of them had “Minions” as the motif.

The former agent later moved to another property in the same condominium. The family sometimes shared their routine on social media.

One hour it was former first lady Michelle Bolsonaro showing off her husband washing strawberries for her.

Another, a piece of cake by Joe Castro, a Brazilian living in Orlando who sang a song, according to him, composed shortly after the TAM plane crash in 2007. With a Coca-Cola in front of him, Bolsonaro listened to placid verses like “how can you live without me”.

Without him in Brazil, Bolsonaro allies criticized him for what they saw as an omission at the beginning of the Lula government. The expectation is that he will return to lead the opposition. In the past 24 hours in the US, his networks have been filled with what he sees as his administration’s accomplishments, including an alleged effort to fight corruption.

Weigh against Bolsonaro requests for investigation ranging from genocide against the Yanomami people to the spread of fake news. The most advanced, which could ultimately make him ineligible in future elections, points out that he used the structure of the Palácio do Alvorada in 2022 to hurl attacks against the electoral system in a meeting with ambassadors.

Their political sons also took to the internet to defend the clan’s legacy. Councilor Carlos Bolsonaro (PL-RJ), the main architect of his father’s virtual persona, posted LinkedIn, the social network for professional contacts, of the man who ceased to govern the country on December 31, 2022. maintains there, as current occupation, “38th president of Brazil”.