U.S. Involvement in Brazil Elections

elections in brazil

well and

are you referring to when you say they went to tell bolsonaro you were you're

referring to

the cia director lloyd austin actually

can pull that up on screen if that you know

the uh... slide deck it'll be slides

starting on

slide twelve i can walk you through the whole for ron if you can go through the

right there

so this is the

u.s. state department

if you can't be able to the slightest was view slideshow they go

mhm

and and we'll go through this line by line here but the u.s. state department

called in massive favors and leverage personal connections

to build voting machines for lula

aligned britain brazil officials

and then the cia warned bolsonaro not to warrant not to mess with or cast doubt

on all the new u.s. state department secured voting machines

determining

his election

and if you go to the next slide

walk through this

so this from the financial times this piece is uh... basically about effective

go to the slide after this

what they say is

this was a concerted but unannounced so this was basically a covert action

by the biden white house

the biden pentagon

the biden cia in the biden state department

to uh... fortify brazil's election so if you go back to the other one

the slide before

so the u.s. provided practical help in the election process

uh... to

obtain components specially semiconductors needed to manufacture the

new voting machines

the former u.s. ambassador to brazil so they are using shadow diplomacy here

because they don't want their formal u.s. state department fingerprints on it

they're going to a uh... a the former u.s. ambassador in brazil to leverage his

personal connections with taiwan with taiwan semiconductor

and to leverage those connections i'm sorry inside of the texas uh... texas

instruments to distinguish

semiconductor needs and give priority now we have a semiconductor shortage here

in the u.s.

they are diverting semiconductor chips

that the u.s. needs

and sending them to brazil a foreign country

to add voting machines that the democratically elected president of

brazil doesn't want

the u.s. state department and some senior brazilian officials also asked

taiwanese authorities to give priority to brazil's need for semiconductors

uh... which are used in the voting machines and then if you go to the next

slides here

uh... yeah

so then i say what's funny is both the nineteen sixty four military hunt in

brazil in the twenty twenty two

judicial hunt in brazil received direct help from the c.i.a. to rise to power and

then if you

if you uh... go to the next one

you'll see c.i.a. chief is reuters

told bolsonaro government not to mess with brazil election

this is

in may twenty twenty two sixty four schools are you talking about uh... the

sam what is it uh...

uh... brothers and brother sam

yet yet but uh...

uh... i want to just just kind of uh...

you close the loop on on this because if you go to the next one

next slide yet

bill burns makes a personal voyage

this is months before the election even happens

we are now force-feeding brazil electronic voting machines the elected

president doesn't even want in the country

and so the state department is doing that then we send in our covert action

boys the c.i.a.

to say don't you cast doubt look at the language told brazilian senior officials

that president bolsonaro should stop casting doubt on his country's voting

system

it's not even his country's voting system

we said we sent the semiconductor chips to build that because brazil didn't want

them themselves

we're putting machines in there

and then

telling them don't question uh... you know the results of these machines

so go to the next one

so then this is also some foreign policy

a month after bill burns it was the pentagon secretary lloyd austin's turn

to go down to brazil and push

the chief

of the brazilian armed forces to commit to actually do a pledge go to the next

slide

brazil manifesto seek to rein in bolsonaro before election this is

in a july conference with regional defense ministers

so we are personally paying as u.s. taxpayers

for the head of the central intelligence agency to go down there

suffering under a chip shortage and we are getting that diverted so that

electronic voting machines can go down then we are paying for the flights of

the c.i.a. director to go down

and were they're not to cast doubt on machines that they didn't

you know they can build without us and that the president didn't want