The Guardian’s Tom Phillips reports on the latest crazy to emerge in hapless Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro’s pathetic handling of this so-not-so-dangerous pandemic thingy. It’s both hilarious and terrifying. A video has now emerged — though only anecdotal reports are currently available — of a Cabinet meeting for the ages. the Boss Man isn’t keen for it be seen.
'The ship is sinking': Bolsonaro battles to block foul-mouthed cabinet video
A two-hour video of a heated and expletive-ridden cabinet meeting chaired by President Jair Bolsonaro last month has become the subject of an extraordinary political arm-wrestle, exposing the intrigues and eccentricities at the centre of Brazilian power.
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The video of the supposedly private plenum on 22 April was unexpectedly thrust into the public domain by the resignation of Bolsonaro’s justice minister, Sergio Moro, two days later.
Moro says the images contain key evidence supporting his allegation that Bolsonaro tried to meddle in federal police business and must be released as part of a supreme court investigation into those claims.
Bolsonaro’s *wink* *wink* Attorney General is trying to keep the video from being widely disseminated. But leaked transcripts are juicy, to say the least. Bolsonaro rants about the Federal Police investigating his children. He shits on his governors. He rages like an untethered bumblefuck.
Do i really need to ask?
In any case, these accounts, apparently, reveal precisely the nature of these shitbags. Here’s to more like this coming out — in Brazil and elsewhere. Do we really need to keep pointing this shit out?
Bolsonaro’s economy minister, Paulo Guede … was reported to have told the meeting the government needed to hurry up and sell “the fucking Bank of Brazil”.
I’ll just leave this here:
[Folha de São Paulo columnist Bruno] Boghossian said the government’s reluctance to release the footage was unsurprising. The images showed a president who was “cornered and surrounded” and a country that was directionless and hostage to “ideological mumbo jumbo”.