Donald Trump let Jair Bolsonaro and Bolsonarism fall once and for all. In July, the North American president, due to the influence of Congressman Eduardo Bolsonaro on the radicals in the White House, announced rates much higher than the international average for strategic sectors in Brazil, such as meat or coffee, to put pressure on President Lula da Silva and the Federal Supreme Court (STF).
Two months later, warned that the price of steaks and steaks were exploding in the USA, Trump backed down, calling Lula “very good guy“, he said he felt excellent chemistry with him and not only drastically lowered tariffs, but also agreed to set up a Washington-Brasília partnership against organized crime. Furthermore: on the 12th he removed the economic sanctions that the American government had imposed on Alexandre de Moraes, Jair’s judge, to force the magistrate to acquit the former president.
Trump was the international hope of Bolsonaro and Bolsonaro to remain relevant because within the walls the abandonment was already measurable: in the first month under house arrest, the STF received 123 requests for visits to Bolsonaro, the newspaper reported. The State of S. Paulo. In the second, 30. In the third, 10, most of them are members of an evangelical prayer group linked to former first lady Michelle Bolsonaro whose function is to keep the detainee spiritually encouraged.
It’s even sad. But fair. When, in 2014, no one thought Bolsonaro’s candidacy for president was viable, then a mere deputy from a rude and reactionary lower clergy, it was the jurist Gustavo Bebianno, who, against expectations, believed in his electoral potential, offering free lawyer and campaign manager services.
Once elected, in 2018, to make room in the machine for his son Carlos, the new president kicked Bebianno into the corner, who would die bitterly of a heart attack, in March 2020, at the age of 56.
Fabrício Queiroz, deputy Bolsonaro’s jack of all trades and offspring, was despised when his name was involved in the embezzlement of advisors’ salaries led by his son Flávio. And businessman Paulo Marinho, who had provided his own mansion as the candidate’s headquarters, ended up removed from the inner circle of power at the first disagreement.
Joice Hasselmann or Alexandre Frota, General Santos Cruz or Major Olímpio, other figures more Bolsonaro than Bolsonaro who helped to raise the candidate, as soon as they questioned the influence of the president’s children on the direction of the government, they were crushed by fake news.
And Mauro Cid, the president’s official handyman, was left as a scapegoat when the police discovered that the leader forged vaccine cards to enter the USA, diverted jewelry offered to the state by Saudi Arabia into his pocket and planned to overthrow and kill Lula. Until he decides to denounce his boss and bring the Bolsonaro house of cards to collapse.
What Bolsonaro is experiencing is called karma. All that’s missing is Trump, who even listened to a passionate “I love you” by the former Brazilian president who now marginalizes, live his.
Journalist, correspondent in São Paulo