(THREAD) Jair Bolsonaro—the so-called "Trump of the Tropics"—has killed hundreds of thousands with a COVID-19 denialism identical to Trump's. And his family appears to have conspired with Trump's in the insurrection. I'm making all PROOF articles on Brazil free. Read on for more. 
(1) This was the first article at PROOF on Eduardo Bolsonaro's secret meetings with insurrectionists during a fake DC "vacation" from January 4 to January 8. Not only is the article free, I've made comments open to all for the first time in PROOF history. sethabramson.substack.com/p/brazils-murk…
(2) I want Brazilians to be able to tell their stories in the comments of the posts I'm making free with this thread. I'm hearing backchannel that the Senate inquiry PROOF helped launch in Brazil is news across Brazil, and that all this is happening at a time thousands are dying.
(3) This was my second article on the Trump-Brazil scandal. It's clear that Bolsonaro lied about every aspect of his DC trip—why he went; who he met with; what he discussed; his links to radical Trumpists with interests in the area of Brazil he represents. sethabramson.substack.com/p/the-trump-br…
(4) After this second article—now free, with comments open to the general public—the Brazilian Senate opened a formal inquiry into the actions of Eduardo Bolsonaro, particularly whether he attended a January 5th "war council" at Trump International Hotel. brasilwire.com/eduardo-bolson…
(5) As the U.S. Congress continues to refuse to investigate the Trump-Brazil scandal—or much of anything truly germane to how insurrectionists got as far as they did—news of Brazil's inquiry, explicitly prompted by PROOF, made international news in Europe. dw.com/pt-br/biden-mu…
(6) The first revelation at PROOF that a son of Jair Bolsonaro—apparently as corrupt as his brothers—met with insurrectionists in the lead-up to an armed rebellion against America came in the long article below, now open to the general public for comments. sethabramson.substack.com/p/breaking-maj…
(7) I had a vague sense of the gravity of what was going on in Brazil at the time I wrote these articles. But it wasn't until I heard from many Brazilian nationals and read a number of translated articles on the situation there that I realized Brazil faces an apocalyptic crisis.
(8) The Bolsonaros have run Brazil into the ground—and now COVID-19 is destroying that country. Brazil is now the COVID-19 epicenter on Earth, and its hospital system is collapsing. It is a humanitarian crisis that the pro-Trump, pro-insurrection Bolsonaros are at the center of.
(9) The first indication in the PROOF January 6 reports that there was even a potential tie between Brazil and pro-Trump radicals present in DC on Insurrection Day came in the form of Daniel Beck, owner of Combat Armor Defense and a Brazilian CAD factory. sethabramson.substack.com/p/a-profile-of…
(10) I've now opened the comments to the article above about Beck—as it remains the case that I've no idea why he was at the January 5 "war council" at Trump International Hotel or whether he did anything wrong with respect to the insurrection. Perhaps someone in Brazil may know.
(11) All we can say for sure is that Beck—from his social media feed—looks to be a radical who supported some sort of anti-democratic action in DC in January. Comments on the below exploration of that feed are now open to the U.S. and international public. sethabramson.substack.com/p/breaking-us-…
(12) The article below—comments now open to the public—runs through one investigative lead on a possible but unconfirmed explanation for why the Bolsonaros, who were working with Trump to deal with Venezuela, may have been useful to Trump's seditious plan. sethabramson.substack.com/p/here-is-the-…
(13) The Brazil-US relationship is critical to the future of Brazil. If the Bolsonaros plotted with the Trumps to end American democracy, Brazilians have a right to know and take it into account as the "Trump of the Tropics" kills hundreds of thousands through willful negligence.
(14) At the heart of Brazil's inquiry into Eduardo Bolsonaro is a January 5 event PROOF was the first outlet to report on—as acknowledged by ESQUIRE and the ALABAMA POLITICAL REPORTER, the only other outlets to cover it. Here's the first PROOF piece on it: sethabramson.substack.com/p/january-5-me…
(15) Just as I've now opened up the comments on the first article at PROOF about the January 5 "war council" in order to make the space accessible to Brazilian nationals and all others, so too am I opening up the comments on the second such article, below: sethabramson.substack.com/p/more-revelat…
(16) And just as I've now opened up the comments on the first and second articles at PROOF about the January 5 "war council" to make them internationally accessible, I've now done the same with the third article at PROOF on the subject, here: sethabramson.substack.com/p/january-5-wa…
(17) What is happening in Brazil now is an international crisis. I was so busy with my research and other tasks that I did not fully appreciate the depth of the emergency in Brazil until today. I'm embarrassed by this—and wish I'd made these articles even more accessible earlier.
(18) Congress must act *now* to investigate the January 5 "war council" just as the Brazilian Senate is doing. If Jair Bolsonaro conspired with Trump against America as *well* as killing his own people by the hundreds of thousands out of sheer vanity, it *must* change US policy.
(19) While Congress should do this out of a concern for both American national security *and* the welfare of all Brazilians, if this isn't enough it must consider that the *reason* there's a "Brazilian COVID-19 variant" is because the "Trump of the Tropics" won't fight COVID-19.
(20) I hope Americans who read this thread, and the PROOF articles it links to, will (a) retweet its first tweet, now my pinned tweet; (b) comment in the now-open boards of these articles; and (c) urge Congress to investigate the Trump-Brazil scandal—and in doing so *aid Brazil*.
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