Eduardo Bolsonaro, federal deputy for Sao Paolo and son of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, has shared a video on his social networks in which Steve Bannon, the former ideological advisor to former U.S. President Donald Trump, defends the protests in Brazil, which question the results of the last elections.
«If electronic voting machines were only well regarded by a few countries, now no serious country will adopt them,» said Bolsonaro’s son on his official Twitter profile, commenting on a video in which Bannon alludes to the protests as a legitimate action to demand that the country’s Constitution be followed.
Bolsonaro’s son has specified on the same social network that «censorship is coming». «But make no mistake, that is the opinion of the majority abroad. The freer international press has covered our elections better,» he said.
In the video shared by the Brazilian, Bannon claims without evidence that «once you start digitizing elections you have no evidence about the identity» of voters. «All that is done for one reason: to steal elections,» said the former Trump adviser.
Bannon, who helped run Trump’s campaign in 2016 and was his chief political strategist until he left the White House in 2017, was sentenced by a US court to four months in jail and $6,500 (€6,600) in fines for contempt of the committee investigating the assault on Capitol Hill.
Despite the fact that Bannon was no longer working for the White House in the period under investigation, the House committee maintains that he held a conversation with Trump in the moments before the assault on the Capitol, being also present in the room of the Willard hotel in Washington, where several associates of the tycoon met, while the incidents were taking place.
The defeat of former President Trump at the polls and his constant denunciations of electoral fraud for alleged irregularities in the voting, never accepted by the courts, were one of the triggers of the insurrection of January 6, which resulted in several deaths.
