Brazil’s presidential election is still over a year away, but as his popularity plummets in the polls, the country’s far-right president Jair Bolsonaro is borrowing a move from the Donald Trump playbook: ramping up baseless conspiracy theories discrediting the electronic voting system, Vice.com reports on website.
And what better way to do that than by sending his son to appear on stage at the Cyber Symposium hosted by MyPillow CEO and uber election fraud conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell?
Eduardo Bolsonaro was warmly welcomed onto stage in Sioux Falls, South Dakota on Tuesday, during the first day of a three-day event. Lindell has promised to reveal evidence of widespread voter fraud in the U.S. but by the end of day one, no such smoking gun had been revealed.
Bolsonaro, who sits in Brazil’s congress, spent 30 minutes ranting about election fraud, conspiracy theories, and the fake news media, while being cheered on by Lindell and former Trump adviser Steve Bannon.