We say everyday here that what’s going on in American politics is beyond parody and that’s not just a clever quip. It is literal truth. A few days ago I posted a piece on Mike Lindell’s catastrophic CNN interview. The story contained a clip where Lindell was boasting that he was “having a very high up politician from another country” speak at his cyber symposium. I cracked wise, “Anybody want to speculate? Bolsonaro? Duterte? Orban? Hugo Chavez on a Zoom call from the Twilight Zone?” I hit it on the first try. I was thinking of daddy, but Eduardo Bolsonaro, son of Jair Bolsonaro is planned as a key speaker in Sioux Falls tomorrow.
In yet another bizarre twist, Lindell announces that he will kick off his big reveal tomorrow with Eduardo Bolsonaro speaking. Apparently, he is interested in how he can sow doubt on his father’s impending 2022 defeat in Brazil. Lindell then says how popular he is now in China. pic.twitter.com/LidGaGZnuc
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) August 9, 2021
Eduardo Bolsonaro met with Ivanka Trump and also with Mike Lindell on January 4 and 5 right before the insurrection according to Seth Abramson publishing on Substack:
Proof has already written at length about Donald Trump adviser and MyPillow CEO Michael Lindell’s presence at a secretive January 5 pre-insurrection “war council” at Trump’s “private residence” at Trump International Hotel—as well as Lindell’s claim that he met with one of Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro’s sons that day, indeed possibly at Trump International as part of the aforementioned council. Proof has also noted the substantial connections fellow meeting attendee Daniel Beck has with the nation of Brazil; Beck owns Combat Armor Defense, a company that makes armored vehicles for governments—used, for instance, in crowd control during large civilian demonstrations—and the chief Combat Armor Defense factory is in Brazil.
What we’re learning now takes these early signs of a potential Trump-Brazil scandal to an entirely different level. Here are ten significant new revelations:
(1) The Bolsonaro Son Trump Adviser Michael Lindell Met With on January 5 and January 6 Was Eduardo Bolsonaro
On January 4, 2021—48 hours before the insurrection—Eduardo Bolsonaro entered the United States as part of a “surprise visit to the White House at the invitation of Ivanka Trump.” On January 5, Eduardo published on social media (see below) “a photo of Ivanka holding his newborn daughter in her arms.”
Bolsonaro’s statement on Instagram regarding the above photo, translated into English, reads as follows:
“I was received [at the White House] by President Trump’s Special Adviser, Ivanka Trump, in her White House office, along with my wife Heloísa and my daughter, Georgia. It was an occasion to strengthen the ties between our countries and to have a pleasant conversation. A businesswoman, Ivanka has done strong work [in the areas of] women, innovation, and entrepreneurship, and she has always been a safe haven for her father Donald Trump—thus [the reason for her] becoming his primary adviser.”
{Note: Technically Eduardo wrote “his office,” not “her office,” but this may be a typo, as he appears to be standing in Ivanka Trump’s White House office.}
Bolsonaro’s Instagram—usually gregariously active—falls mysteriously quiet for the rest of his pre-insurrection visit.
As for Bolsonaro’s Twitter account, on January 4, 2021, the day he arrives in the United States, he retweets a tweet from Brazil’s ambassador to the United States stating that “Brazil is committed to building an ever stronger partnership with the United States, based on common values, for the benefit of our peoples.” He also lauds Mike Pompeo, who is in Brazil, for signing an agreement that “designate[s] Brazil [as] a major non-NATO ally and launches the U.S.-Brazil Environmental Framework Dialogue”, two developments that in theory could put the Bolsonaros in Trump’s debt as Eduardo heads to the White House to speak to Ivanka Trump and (possibly) her dad. Notable also is that the tweet from Brazil’s ambassador allegedly signaled the end of the said ambassador’s term in America, meaning that Bolsonaro may well have held himself out as Brazil’s de facto ambassador (see below for much more) during his stay in Washington.
Jair Bolsonaro is an anti-vaxxer who believes in election fraud, he’s a perfect match for this group. And his son is in this country to undermine democracy, make no mistake. And he defends and makes light of the insurrectionists, because he understands their perspective, surprise, surprise.
Eduardo would eventually post a picture of himself with Lindell on social media on the evening of January 6 (see above) meaning that Eduardo had met with the top Trump donor, booster, and adviser two days running at a minimum. As for Lindell, in his own January 6 social media post about his meeting with Bolsonaro, a video livestream, he also noted that he had spent the last two days with Michael Flynn, Rudy Giuliani, and Sidney Powell—a recitation of his pre-insurrection dance card that suggests Eduardo Bolsonaro may have been a member of this disreputable cadre throughout the 48-hour lead-up to the insurrection.
On January 7, the day after the insurrection, Bolsonaro wrote on social media that, as to the assault on the Capitol, he had decided to “make my own the words of [Brazilian] Chancellor Ernesto Araújo.” The words in question included these, along with Araújo’s “regret” over the destruction caused on Capitol Hill (emphasis in original):
“One must recognize that a large part of the American people feel assaulted and betrayed by their political class and distrust the electoral process. One has to distinguish between ‘electoral process’ and ‘democracy.’ Doubting the suitability of an electoral process does not mean rejecting democracy….One must stop calling decent citizens ‘fascists’ when they demonstrate against elements of the political system or members of institutions….Nothing justifies an invasion like the one that occurred yesterday. But at the same time nothing justifies, in a democracy, the disrespect of the people by institutions or those who control them. The right of the people to demand the proper functioning of their institutions is sacred. May yesterday’s events in Washington not serve as a pretext, in the United States of America or in any country, to place any institution above popular scrutiny.”
January 7 also sees Bolsonaro tweet out a picture of him meeting with CPAC CEO Matt Schlapp—whose wife, Mercedes Schlapp, was the Trump 2020 campaign’s Senior Advisor for Strategic Communications—and Dan Schneider, the Executive Director of the American Conservative Union (which was then planning a CPAC conference in Brazil, just as the ACU sponsors one annually in the United States.)
Mike Lindell doesn’t understand how much damage he’s doing or the gravity of the anti-American company that he’s keeping. He’s too stupid to understand that he’s being played by anti-democratic forces who would eliminate free and fair elections altogether.
Tuesday through Thursday should be quite a show. Not the way Lindell thinks, but quite a show for anybody who’s actually watching and understanding the big picture.
If there was cheating going on in Brazil, the Bolsonaros would certainly know about it: they wanted it.
So he’s bragging about being popular in China? Aren’t they the enemy?
Not for MAGA merchandise manufacturers.
“{Note: Technically Eduardo wrote “his office,” not “her office,” but this may be a typo, as he appears to be standing in Ivanka Trump’s White House office.}”
I kind of wish we had the original Portuguese because, generally, “his office” and “her office” will be written the same way in Portuguese–“seu escritório.” In Portuguese, like French and Spanish, possessive adjectives (the equivalents of “my” and “his” and “their”) are not defined by the gender of the owner but by the gender of the object–a masculine noun (like “filho”–meaning “son”) will use a masculine possessive adjective and a feminine noun (like “filha”–meaning “daughter”) will use a feminine possessive adjective. It doesn’t matter if the person who’s in possession is male or female. A man would say “Ele é meu filho” (“He’s my son”) and a woman would say “Ele é meu filho”; a man would say “Ela é minha filha” (“She’s my daughter”) and a woman would say “Ela é minha filha.” With “seu/sinha” (the masculine and feminine forms for the third-person possessives) you CAN substitute “dele” and “dela” (meaning, “of his” and “of hers” respectively) to clarify whose possession an item is but then you’re not supposed to use the possessive adjective at all. Instead of, for instance, “Este é seu escritório” (“This is his/her office”), you wanted to specify that the office was his or hers, you’d have “Este é o escritório dele” (for “This is his office”) or “Este é o escritório dela” (for “This is her office”).
So, if the original sentence (in Portuguese) had been “em seu escritório na Casa Branca,” then it would’ve been HER office (since it follows Ivanka Trump’s name). IF the original sentence had been “no escritório dele na Casa Branca,” THEN that would’ve been a typo (since it should’ve been “dela” instead of “dele”–“dele” would’ve meant “his office”).
It’s bad that Abramson hadn’t bothered to check with someone conversant in Portuguese to make sure because it REALLY takes away from his otherwise well-researched piece. (I did check the Substack article and he failed to include the original comment under the picture, relying instead on an imperfect translation.)
This Bolsonaro’s father is the Trump of Latin America, no wonder Lindell attracts him and vice-versa.
{NOTE: TECHNICALLY EDUARDO WROTE “HIS OFFICE,” NOT “HER OFFICE,” BUT THIS MAY BE A TYPO, AS HE APPEARS TO BE STANDING IN IVANKA TRUMP’S WHITE HOUSE OFFICE.} Google translates it “his office” because occice in Portuguese is masculine, and the possessive goes with the word it refers to. Seu is his for office, even if the person whose office it is happens to be female.
That being said, I have been living in Brasil since 2011, through the first term of Dilma Rousseff and the 1 and a half years she was in office before the legislative coup that took her out in 2016. You think FUX is bad in the USA. Well, the whole GLOBO setup with its TV and newspaper monopoly, and its pals in Sao Paulo with journalistic print control railroaded Dilma out because the economic elite in this country , which have been exploiting people for half a millennium didn’t like the great progress made by the labor party and Luis Inacio Lula da Silva were offensive to them because real people got to savor the fruits of Brasil, like off-shore oil, and other such treasures that allowed the “servant” of a rich family to send his or her daughter to medical school or poor people to afford to send their children to public schools or eat three meals pet day or own their own houses. And so, to further the control, Dilma was impeached and removed for a practice called tax-pedaling, that has been ongoing with most of the right wing governments for decades. And Lula was sent to jail on trumped up charges of bribery and corruption. He lost his wife to a stroke when she was brutally questioned by the judge Sergio Moro and the corrupt prosecutors office. And Lula went to jail with not a shred of evidence against him despite years and years of investigations, encouraged incidentally by himself and Dilma against political corruption. After Dilma’s vice president Michel Temer succeeded in appeasing the billionaire gods like the Koch’s by privatizing several major industries, including the big part of Petrobras, and Bolsonaro was elected president after Lula was declared ineligible by a corrupt supreme court, all this, with the help of but the media propaganda machine and the U.S. government, the country went to hell, and will take decades to recover, if it ever does. “Bozonazi” has already begun to delegitimize the 2022 election, as did Trump of 2020, and has placed military officials in all the civilian ministries just in case Lula, who has ben exonerated and will run again in 2022, wins. Barring a proof of fraud, the country is ripe for a new coup d’etat Even though GLOBO had now disavowed Bozo the damage has been out in place, and though Moro and the prosecutors have been disgraced, there has been no punishment. Once more, The pres. of the Camara (house of reps) was jailed for stealing millions and the Moro project Lava Jato has been shown to be a scheme, not to root out corruption but to prevent Lula from running in 2018, all this has happened with the aid and comfort of the military for a homophobic, racist, woman-hating mental deficient who was released from the military for mental issues incompatible with military procedure, and then spent neatly 30 years in the congress mostly sleeping and collecting pay and benefits and getting his sons into office to do the same. He has destroyed the public health system, sold the rest of Petrobras and privatized the public electric system, which in the past few months has seen bills more than double, while denying the pandemic and throwing millions out of work, dismantling social programs, you name it. If it benefited the people, he has destroyed it If you want to know what the US has wrought with the help of the worldwide oligarchy, take a look at Brasil, which was the sixth largest economy in the world in 2014 and is now the 20th with gasoline prices triples what they were when I arrived, cooking gas more than double, beef, quadruple, soy oil triple. I could go on.
Let me add that I am a patriotic citizen of the United States, whose roots go back to the founding of Jamestown, Virginia, but I am not proud of my government, generally from 1981 until the present, because I must include the current shameful senate situation. After seeing the blatant disregard for the constitution here and the same, only slightly more subtle in the USA, I am a firm believer that every one of those who violate the spirit of those documents should be held accountable and criminally charged and sent to the prison they so readily keep available to the average people who are just trying to get a tiny piece of the American dream. Or the Brasilian dream.