{"id":27504,"date":"2023-07-22T12:35:55","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T19:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=27504"},"modified":"2023-07-22T12:35:56","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T19:35:56","slug":"why-the-us-cant-ban-trump-from-politics-like-brazil-did-to-bolsonaro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/07\/22\/why-the-us-cant-ban-trump-from-politics-like-brazil-did-to-bolsonaro\/","title":{"rendered":"WHY THE US CAN\u2019T BAN TRUMP FROM POLITICS LIKE BRAZIL DID TO BOLSONARO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Brazilian Supreme Court ruling is likely just the first of many consequences to come for the disgraced former president, whose supporters staged an insurrection earlier this year in a manner compared to the Jan. 6, 2021 riots by Trump supporters in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BY\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/author\/michael-fox\">MICHAEL FOX<\/a><\/strong> JULY 18, 2023 (therealnews.com)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/therealnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/GettyImages-1471265125-scaled.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"Former President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro speaks during the annual Conservative Political Action Conference at Gaylord National Resort Convention Center on March 4, 2023 in National Harbor, Maryland. Photo by Alex Wong\/Getty Images\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Former President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro speaks during the annual Conservative Political Action Conference at Gaylord National Resort Convention Center on March 4, 2023 in National Harbor, Maryland. Photo by Alex Wong\/Getty Images<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bolsonaro banned from politics\u2014is Trump next?\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OjAUttR-bBI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has been barred from holding political office for the next eight years. The country\u2019s Supreme Court ruled on June 30 that he had abused his political power, attacked the electoral system and misused the media. Analysts say he\u2019s likely to suffer more consequences, as this was just one of more than a dozen cases pending against the former president.<br><br>The ruling has left some wondering how Bolsonaro could be stripped of his right to hold office in Brazil, while his idol, Donald Trump, in the United States is still a leading candidate for the Republican nomination next year. For legal scholars, the answer comes down to the differing role of free speech rights in each country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>Production \/ Post-Production: Michael Fox<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-transcript\">TRANSCRIPT<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mike Fox:<\/strong>&nbsp;Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has been barred from holding public office for the next eight years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The country\u2019s Supreme Court ruled on June 30th that he had abused his political power, attacked the electoral system and misused the media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Benedito Gon\u00e7alves, Supreme Court Justice:&nbsp;<\/strong>\u201cI declare his ineligibility for eight years from the election of 2022.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mike Fox:<\/strong>&nbsp;Five judges agreed that he used government channels and social media to promote his campaign and spread misinformation about Brazil\u2019s electoral system.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Alexandre de Moraes, Supreme Court Justice:&nbsp;<\/strong>\u201cHe spread lies, absolutely fraudulent Information. They were&nbsp; not opinions. They were not possible opinions. They were lies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mike Fox:<\/strong>&nbsp;The ruling focused on a meeting that Bolsonaro held in July, last year, where he told foreign ambassadors that the country\u2019s electoral voting system was rigged and the [results] of the then-upcoming election could be manipulated.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This, despite the fact that Brazil\u2019s electoral system had long been internationally recognized as safe and secure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Benedito Gon\u00e7alves, Supreme Court Justice:&nbsp;<\/strong>\u201cHe created the belief that the alteration of the results was a threat to the 2022 elections.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mike Fox:&nbsp;<\/strong>Brazilians celebra ted the ruling across the country.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Crowds:&nbsp;<\/strong>\u201cUnelectable!\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s time for Jair to leave!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mike Fox:<\/strong>&nbsp;The judgment marks the first time a Brazilian president has been barred from holding public office for election violations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bolsonaro\u2019s supporters attacked the ruling on social media. His far-right Liberal Party shared a video in his defense.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Donald Trump: \u201cOne of the great presidents of any country in the world, President Bolsonaro.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mike Fox:<\/strong>&nbsp;Bolsonaro denounced the judgment against him, calling it politically motivated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jair Bolsonaro, former Brazilian President:&nbsp;<\/strong>\u201cNo one behaved better than me. Some people even complained I was too good. I never did anything outside the Constitution\u2026&nbsp; I\u2019ve been out of the government for six months. I wasn\u2019t even here on January 8, and they have been persecuting me the whole time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mike Fox:<\/strong>&nbsp;Bolsonaro\u2019s on-going attacks on the country\u2019s electoral system led many of his followers to question the results of last year\u2019s October\u2019s elections, which former leftist president Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva won by more than 2 million votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bolsonaro\u2019s followers protested the election results. They camped outside military barracks, demanding that the armed forces intervene to block Lula\u2019s inauguration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On January 8th, they attacked Brazil\u2019s capital, ransacking government buildings in a copycat performance of the January 6 capitol invasion by Trump supporters in 2021. Thousands of pro-Bolsonaro rioters were swiftly jailed by Brazilian law enforcement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bolsonaro is now barred from running for office until 2030. And this ruling is the culmination of just one of more than a dozen cases pending against the former president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Fabio de Sa e Silva:&nbsp;<\/strong>\u201cThere is not a short list of conducts that he committed that violate the law, whether it\u2019s electoral law, whether it\u2019s a criminal law. And I\u2019m sure he\u2019s going to suffer more consequences from what he did.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mike Fox:&nbsp;<\/strong>Many analysts believe it could be the end of his political career. But it will not likely be the end of his far-right movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His wife, Michelle Bolsonaro, is a devout evangelical who posted on Instagram following the ruling that their \u201cdream is more alive than ever.\u201d \u201cI am at your orders, my CAPTAIN,\u201d she wrote.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bolsonaro has said she could potentially run for office in the next elections.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bolsonaro also has three politician sons, all of whom are prominent figures in Brazil\u2019s far-right. But they have also faced criminal and political investigations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Bob Fernandes, Brazilian journalist:&nbsp;<\/strong>\u201cI hope that this ruling is just the first step so that they investigate all areas of Bolsonarism\u2014meaning, Bolsonaro and his family.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mike Fox:&nbsp;<\/strong>The Supreme Court ruling has left some wondering how Bolsonaro could be stripped of his right to hold office in Brazil, while his idol, Trump, in the United States is still a leading candidate for the Republican nomination next year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For legal scholars, the answer comes down to the differing role of free speech rights in each country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Fabio de Sa e Silva:&nbsp;<\/strong>\u201cBolsonaro is basically being punished by something that he said about the electoral system. And in the United States, saying things, you know, propagating lies and misinformation about the electoral system\u2026 I don\u2019t think it would be punishable at all under any circumstance, because of how strong the protection to free speech rights is in the United States. And, you know, in the past, I think a lot of people thought of this as an advantage of the United States in comparison to other societies. But I think, more recently, there has been a rethinking of this, and there has been an understanding that it\u2019s not that other countries lack free speech rights; it\u2019s just that they have other rights that they balance free speech rights against. And in the case of Brazil, you know, because we all understood in the 2018 election that misinformation was a serious threat to democracy, the legal system began to offer a response.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mike Fox:<\/strong>&nbsp;In other words, for Brazil, democracy and fair elections trumps people\u2019s right to share and spread clearly biased information. And that includes the president.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For The Real News, I\u2019m Michael Fox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brazilian Supreme Court ruling is likely just the first of many consequences to come for the disgraced former president, whose supporters staged an insurrection earlier this year in a manner compared to the Jan. 6, 2021 riots by Trump supporters in Washington, DC. 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