Trump considering attending 'mega-rally' in Brazil to endorse Bolsonaro's re-election: report

[Judi Lynn]

Matthew Chapman
September 10, 2021



On Friday, The Daily Beast reported that former President Donald Trump is considering getting involved in the re-election effort of far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro — out of gratitude for Bolsonaro being one of the only world leaders to stand by him as he promoted his "Stop the Steal" conspiracy theories around his own election loss.

"This summer, according to two people with knowledge of the matter, Trump told confidants that he's open to publicly endorsing Bolsonaro's reelection, potentially at a mega-rally in Brazil where he and Bolsonaro could appear together side-by-side, to rail against what they each deem undesired election outcomes," reported Asawin Suebsaeng, Will Sommer, and Adam Rawnsley. "Bolsonaro ... has been preemptively spreading groundless claims of election 'fraud,' a strategy jarringly reminiscent of Trump's failed coup in the United States."

According to the report, the Trump and Bolsonaro families maintain strong ties.

"President Bolsonaro's son Eduardo, who serves as a member of the Brazilian parliament and has been described in the U.S. press as the Donald Trump Jr. of Brazil, recently met with Trump, according to a post on the Brazilian lawmaker's Instagram account," said the report. "Last month, the younger Bolsonaro posted pictures of himself at Trump Tower standing next to the former president. Bolsonaro, whose infant daughter posed alongside the ex-president in an autographed MAGA ball cap, said he 'took the opportunity to invite [Trump] to come to our country when he sees fit, maybe in a CPAC-Brazil.'"

More:
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-and-bolsonaro/

Also posted in the Latin America forum:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/110878132

[PortTack]

1. Nah...more big talk

[Sanity Claws]

2. Seize his fucking passport

He is a flight risk.

[sop]

3. Trump can't speak Portuguese, he'd have to find an interpreter who can translate Trumpese.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

6. Trump's big problem is that he can't speak English, either.

An interpreter would either fall asleep from boredom or throw up their hands in frustration and walk out of the room.

[nykym]

5. Let him go

then when he tries to come back don't let him in.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

7. Now there's a good idea!

Trump would be stuck in Customs beating on the exit door and screaming like Fred Flintstone in the end credits for someone to let him back in.

[marmar]

8. Is it wrong to hope he gets lost in the Amazon and accidentally gets devoured by piranhas?

[BlueMTexpat]

9. Wouldn't that

be loverly?

[sop]

11. Jeff Bezos should sell him some waterfront acreage on "his" river for a new golf resort.

[oasis]

10. Trump's lazy ass ain't going nowhere. Just talk, like always..