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Imigrante Latina 🇧🇷/🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 anti-imperialist feminist. Journo at @BrasilWire, @brasil247, @jacobinbrasil.

Sep 7, 2021, 6 tweets

Eduardo Bolsonaro is wearing a T-shirt from Project Veritas, a far-right organization that defends the control of journalists through the use of hidden cameras. And it’s accused of twisting facts to spread fake news and conspiracy theories

Matthew Tyrmand, a journalist who used to work for Breitbart and is a board member for Project Veritas, is also in Brazil

It’s hardly a surprise to see all the “big trumpsters” in Brazil.
Far-right guru and former White House strategist Steve Bannon has been using his political weight to support Jair Bolsonaro’s electoral campaign.
My article for @BrasilWire: brasilwire.com/steve-bannon-d…

Trump ally Matt Schlapp, chairman of the American Conservative Union and husband to former top Trump communications aide Mercedes Schlapp is also repeating Bolsonaro’s same old speech “the Brazilian Supreme Court is totalitarian” to justify the BR police questioning his pals:

Of course Walid Phares went to publicly defend Bolsonaro’s disregard for the Brazilian constitution, in 2018 on Fox News, the journalist claimed that Bolsonaro would give “a new voice to Latin America”.

The far right political activist Jack Posobiec also spoke extensively about today’s manifestations in Brazil. Posobiec, a Trump supporter, has long well established connections with neo-nazi and white supremacist groups

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