‘I sent it, what’s the problem?’, says Bolsonaro about message – 08/23/2023 – Politics

Jair Bolsonaro (PL) confirmed this Wednesday (23) the content of the message sent to businessman Meyer Nigri that led the Federal Police to subpoena the former president to explain the dissemination of fake news about the Brazilian electoral process.

“I sent it to Meyer, what’s the problem? [ministro do Supremo Tribunal Federal e então presidente do Tribunal Superior Eleitoral Luís Roberto] Barroso had spoken abroad [sobre a derrota da proposta do voto impresso na Câmara, em 2021]I have always been a supporter of the printed vote”, he said.

Bolsonaro spoke briefly with the Sheet during a flight from Brasília to São Paulo, which took off from the capital at 6:24 am and lasted 1h30min. He, who was accompanied by a security guard, only answered a question and did not allow it to be recorded.

The former president was admitted this morning to the Vila Nova Star hospital, in São Paulo, to undergo routine tests.

“These exams are aimed at assessing his clinical condition, mainly in the digestive system, intestinal traffic, adhesions, abdominal hernia and reflux. still no resolution”, wrote his advisor and lawyer Fabio Wajngarten on a social network, in reference to the stabbing in Juiz de Fora (MG).

Bolsonaro stated that he did not participate in the group of businessmen to which, according to the PF, Nigri forwarded the messages in which he criticized ministers of the Supreme Court and the TSE, accusing them of interference in the electoral process for having expressed their opposition to the reintroduction of the vote. printed.

The police will hear him specifically for the dissemination of content associated with fake news, the subject of investigation at the Federal Supreme Court, for which he asked Nigri “to pass on as much as possible”. “I’ll go there and explain”, he said, about the testimony scheduled for the 31st.

The term is found in the transcription of one of the messages found on the cell phone of the businessman, owner of Tecnisa construction company and one of Bolsonaro’s first supporters.

“Minister Barroso makes a pilgrimage abroad about the current Brazilian electoral process, as being something safe and reliable. The worst, lies about what was tried to be approved in 2021: the veto printed next to the electronic ballot box, when he met with leaders parties and the Printed Vote was defeated. This is called INTERFERENCE”.

“All this disservice to Democracy by the 3 ministers of the TSE STF only increases the distrust of fraud prepared during the elections. Datafolha inflates Lula’s numbers to support the TSE on the occasion of the announcement of the electoral result TRANSFER TO THE MAXIMUM”, he says the text.

The proposed constitutional amendment of the printed vote was defeated in the Chamber on August 10, 2021, in one of the high points of the institutional tension promoted by Bolsonaro in his term, which ended after losing re-election to Lula (PT) last year.

On that day, he ordered the diversion of Navy armored vehicles participating in an annual military exercise in Formosa (GO) to parade on the Esplanada dos Ministérios, as a way of intimidating deputies. It didn’t work out and became a meme, given the smoke caused by the old armored vehicles on the move.

Afterwards, he even threatened to sue Barroso and Minister Alexandre de Moraes (STF), rapporteur of the fake news inquiry in the STF that the former president sees as an opponent, in the Senate, but nothing happened.

The printed vote was the first of the battles lost by the ex-president in his attempt to discredit electronic voting machines and the Brazilian voting system. He also involved the Armed Forces in the preparation of a report that did not attest to the fallibility of the system and denounced without evidence the alleged lack of security of the polls in lives.

More seriously, he did so in a speech to foreign ambassadors in Brasília, an act that led to a lawsuit at the TSE that culminated in his ineligibility until 2030, taking Bolsonaro out of three elections, including the 2026 national one.

The former president refused to speak with the Sheet on other topics, such as the issue of Saudi jewels that were resold by his then assistant, Mauro Cid, who is in prison. Bolsonaro is besieged on several fronts, and members of the PL are already working with the hypothesis that he is a direct target of the PF, perhaps even with an arrest warrant.

On the flight, he spent most of the time sleeping. As the plane landed, some supporters approached to take selfies and there was a timid rehearsal of applause and shouts of “Mito”, the hallmark of his 2018 campaign to power.

But it pales in comparison to the crowded airport receptions of that era. Some people booed him, and a passenger shouted “Vaccines save lives”, in reference to the politician’s denialist campaign when he was in the Presidency in relation to Covid-19, in addition to questioning whether he was “running from the police”.

Using his prerogative, he left the aircraft in the first wave of passengers and drove away in a car that was waiting for him on the tarmac.