Late last month, Brazilian Justice Minister Sergio Moro resigned, and alleged that President Bolsonaro fired the head of the Federal Police in order to prevent a corruption investigation which may implicate his son (is this sounding familiar to anybody else...?).
The real topic of this thread, though, is a two-hour-long video of a Brazilian cabinet meeting (from 22 April), which has already been seen by Supreme Court investigators. Moro (who was present) claims that the video provides proof that Bolsonaro fired the head of Federal Police to block a specific investigation, and that the video should be publicly released; Bolsonaro says otherwise, and that the video should be destroyed.
So... although not publicly available (yet?), a partial transcript (produced by the Attorney General) and several leaks have provided some excellent content:
* President Bolsonaro states, "I’m not going to wait for [the federal police] to fuck my family and friends just for shits and giggles";
* The Education Minister refers to Brasilia as "cancer" and "crap";
* The Economy Minister states that they need to "sell the fucking bank of Brazil";
* The Foreign Minister refers to the novel coronavirus as "Communavirus", referring to the Communist Party of China (particularly notable given the strong trade links between China and Brazil);
* Bolsonaro refers to various governors as "shit" and "manure" (recall that the vast majority of Brazilian governors have ignored the government's call to immediately end the lockdown).
Sources;
www.theguardian.com
www.reuters.com
www.ft.com
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((The thread title, by-the-by, comes from the description given to Bolsonaro's cabinet by a Supreme Court Judge in the wake of the video screening for court investigators)).
The real topic of this thread, though, is a two-hour-long video of a Brazilian cabinet meeting (from 22 April), which has already been seen by Supreme Court investigators. Moro (who was present) claims that the video provides proof that Bolsonaro fired the head of Federal Police to block a specific investigation, and that the video should be publicly released; Bolsonaro says otherwise, and that the video should be destroyed.
So... although not publicly available (yet?), a partial transcript (produced by the Attorney General) and several leaks have provided some excellent content:
* President Bolsonaro states, "I’m not going to wait for [the federal police] to fuck my family and friends just for shits and giggles";
* The Education Minister refers to Brasilia as "cancer" and "crap";
* The Economy Minister states that they need to "sell the fucking bank of Brazil";
* The Foreign Minister refers to the novel coronavirus as "Communavirus", referring to the Communist Party of China (particularly notable given the strong trade links between China and Brazil);
* Bolsonaro refers to various governors as "shit" and "manure" (recall that the vast majority of Brazilian governors have ignored the government's call to immediately end the lockdown).
Sources;
'The ship is sinking': Bolsonaro battles to block foul-mouthed cabinet video
A partial transcript of the meeting in Brasília offers a glimpse of the paranoia and ideological obsessions of Brazil’s president
www.theguardian.com
On tape, Bolsonaro cites protecting his family in push to swap top Rio cop: source
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said in an April cabinet meeting that he needed to change Rio de Janeiro's chief of the federal police to protect family members under investigation, a person with knowledge of a video of the meeting told Reuters.
www.reuters.com
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((The thread title, by-the-by, comes from the description given to Bolsonaro's cabinet by a Supreme Court Judge in the wake of the video screening for court investigators)).
