“Flávio Bolsonaro is Trump’s candidate and what Trump wants is to colonize Brazil, take our riches, steal our future and leave us in the dust,” claims the latest video released by President Luiz Inácio (Lula) da Silva’s re-election campaign. The weird thing is about half of Brazil’s voters would be okay with U.S. President Donald Trump running the country (through Bolsonaro).

Nobody in Brazil thinks Bolsonaro is his own man. He is the son of Jair Bolsonaro, the hard right ex-soldier and former president who tried a coup after he lost the 2022 election. It was even clumsier and more half-hearted than Trump’s brief excursion in sedition after he lost the U.S. 2020 election, but Jair Bolsonaro went to jail for his attempt.

In a strange way, Trump even recognizes the parallel, showing special sympathy for his imprisoned fellow traveler. He claimed the senior Bolsonaro was the victim of a “witch-hunt” by the Brazilian Supreme Court and slapped 50 per cent tariffs on the country. And on Oct. 4, the junior Bolsonaro faces Lula in another presidential election.

We already know there will be a second round of voting on Oct. 25, when the other three candidates have dropped out and it’s a straight........

© The London Free Press