The London-based Financial Times features at the top of its home page this Sunday (image below) a report on “a rare interview” of Jair Bolsonaro’s third son, Eduardo, presented as the bridge with the American extreme right.
“Eduardo seems friendly and courteous, but his comments are not always charitable”, describes the financial newspaper, reproducing speeches by the federal deputy against the Supreme Court.
He says that the ministers are “fighting” his father by interfering “all the time” in favor of Lula. He accuses them of being dictators. “In dictatorships they close the press, put journalists in prison, exile people, arrest party presidents,” he declares.
The paper hears from a US financial executive “close to the family”, Gerald Brant, that “he has a unique gift for channeling the American conservative movement, with a Brazilian twist”. And he hears from former ambassador Thomas Shannon that the deputy “looked very closely at 6 de Janeiro”, the invasion of the Capitol, and learned the lesson that Bolsonaro “needs the Armed Forces”. On the subject, the FT notes:
“Eduardo dodges questions about what he and his father can do if the voting system is not changed and Jair loses the election. ‘I think they will improve [o sistema]’, it says. ‘All the rest is futurology… I don’t know if [nossos apoiadores] will take to the streets’.”
