Bolsonaro, Trump’s last player | The president of B …

From Brasilia.When he came to power in 2019 Jair Bolsonaro introduced himself as the tropical Donald Trump and planned to hold a far-right summit with the presence of the US president who today spurred a rebellion on Capitol Hill and other heads of state including Mauricio Macri.

In December 2018, he organized a pioneering summit in Foz de Iguazú, under the coordination of his son Eduardo, one of the influential men in the formulation of Brazilian foreign policy.

To the policeman and president of the Foreign Commission of the Lower House Eduardo Bolsonaro was tasked with building bridges with the White House. A task he more than accomplished: during one of his frequent trips to Washington, he even donned a cap with the slogan “Trump 2020”.

As a reward for his flawless alignment, the young congressman was chosen by Trump’s former adviser, Steve bannon, as leader in South America of the neo-fascist group Movimiento.

In 2020, the Bolsonaro campaigned for the re-election of the leader of the Republican Party and did not recognize Joe Biden’s victory until December 15. They did it after other ultra-conservative figures like Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hungarian President Victor Orbán.

The late recognition of Joe biden and the insistence on the fraud argument (Bolsonaro again slipped a brief comment on this on Tuesday) would be the test of a potential coup rebellion in 2022, possibly with paramilitary support , who could be unleashed if the current president is not elected, says the researcher from the University of São Paulo, Bruno Paes Manso, author of the book “The Republic of the Militias”.

In his latest gesture of devotion to Trump, the president sent his son Eduardo to Washington to say goodbye in person.

Eduardo appeared at the White House on Monday with his wife and their baby daughter, Georgia, born in October. I would have received it Ivanka trump, the daughter of the magnate he hired today called the Capitol invaders “patriots” in a later deleted tweet.

Eduardo himself confessed to having chosen this name in reference to the American state of conservative tradition. It was a sort of offer made in the middle of the countryside.

Trump’s narrow defeat in Georgia made the congressman the laughing stock of social media in November when memes rained, one saying little Georgia would be Biden’s hidden constituent.

The new head of the House of Representatives’ foreign relations committee, the Democrat Gregory Meeks He said on Tuesday that he is defending a new foreign policy in which one of the priorities will be “to exert pressure on the Bolsonaros of the world”, in reference to the extremist leaders.

But the probably difficult relationship with Biden does not intimidate the president-captain and his son: the two appear to be working to consolidate themselves as posttrumpism banners. And perhaps organize this summit of the extreme right with the presence of the imminent former American president.