The lawmaker son of Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro has expressed his support to the U.S. President Donald Trump over Twitter’s decision to ban his account, that is, he changed his Twitter profile picture to one of Trump!
Accusing Twitter of “authoritarianism”, Eduardo Bolsonaro said Sunday he was “permanently” using Trump’s picture.
Twitter suspended Trump’s personal account on Friday, two days after a violent mob of the president’s supporters stormed the Capitol in Washington while lawmakers were convening to confirm Joe Biden winning in the presidential elections.
Eduardo Bolsonaro hit out at the “murder of freedom of expression” and questioned why Trump has been suspended from Twitter but not Venezuela’s authoritarian leader Nicolas Maduro.
When his father was sworn in as president of Brazil in January 2019, there were suggestions Eduardo could be named ambassador to Washington due to his strong relationship with the Trump family.
Both seen as populists, Bolsonaro and Trump have been close allies since the Brazilian president came to power.
“Basically, what was the problem, what caused the crisis? A lack of confidence in the vote,” Jair Bolsonaro said about last week’s Capitol violence.
He has supported Trump’s claims of being a victim of electoral fraud and also suggested that “something worse” could happen in Brazil next year when he’s up for re-election if voters are allowed to cast ballots electronically.
Jair Bolsonaro was the last prominent world leader to congratulate Biden on his victory more than a month after the election.
