January 10, 2023

Fox News host Tucker Carlson channeled Steve Bannon and told his audience, with no proof of any kind, that the Brazilian election was "rigged" against Bolsonaro. Tucker also described the insurrectionists attacking the Brazilian Capitol as just "frustrated people."

"Consider what is happening tonight in Brazil. So, thanks to what was very clearly a rigged election, a convicted criminal called Lula da Silva is now the president of the most important country in South America," Carlson said. "Millions of people in Brazil understand exactly what happened. They know that their democracy has been hijacked, possibly forever.”

How was it rigged? Bolsonaro was president at the time.

Who knows, and in Tucker's mind, who cares.

“But there's not much they can do about that," Carlson said, blaming President Biden and China for supporting Lula and, in essence, helping to "rig the election" somehow.

"So, yesterday, in frustration, a group of Brazilian protestors swarmed their legislature," Carlson said.

The insurrection was a gift and grift from the many vacuous Trump supporters, who immediately pounced on the Brazilian election and promote a false allegation of "international election fraud" to help bolster traitor Trump's noxious claims of a stolen election.

It's not an accident that an insurrection took place in Brazil, since Steve Bannon has been in the middle of all this since he was approached by Bolsonaro son in 2018, to counsel them in their coming election.

Eduardo Bolsonaro even attended a Mike Lindell "cybersecurity forum" in 2021 to openly imagine how voting machines would be hacked in his country. "In his speech, Eduardo Bolsonaro said that his father had exposed how hackers could get into Brazil’s electronic voting machines — echoing similar claims from Trump about his election."

Tucker Carlson should be suspended from Fox News immediately.

Don't hold your breath.

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