Eduardo Bolsonaro on Brazil's Election and His Family's US Exile

Everyone, I'm here at CPAC Mar-a-Lago with Eduardo Bolsonaro, and we have seen a crazy situation that went on in Brazil.

You've been in America now for quite some time 'cause you're in exile basically 'cause they want to arrest you.

Your brother had to flee because after the election they wanted to arrest him.

Your father's in jail over there essentially.

This is insane what's gone on in Brazil.

Could you explain to the American people what has gone on in the last eight days in Brazil basically?

And basically it's the new model of dictatorship.

They do not use guns anymore to take control of the country.

They use justice from the Supreme Court, so this is the first step.

And just like Venezuela, in Venezuela you have a Congress, you have a Supreme Court, you were used it, you have a president, but everybody knew that it wasn't a democracy anymore.

So Brazil is following these steps, and, uh, I'm sure that you need to know that to prevent your country to do not receive this same Brazilian virus.

Because I'm sure that Brazil is a lab and they are going to try to export this to other countries.

But talking straight about the last election, it was clearly stolen.

That is the problem. Like, there is no way what happened at, uh, happened at, right in front of the eyes of everybody.

So always who finish first in the first round win the second round.

The first time that it didn't happen, it was in the last election.

And you always expect in the runoff less people show up to vote.

What happened in this last election, it was the very opposite.

So all of the other candidates, the third, the fourth, and the fifth place in the first round, all of them together, they had 90 million votes combined.

Some of them, including the third and the fifth one, openly supporting Flávio.

And the other last one said, "Just do not vote in Lula."

So it's unbelievable that this, not only 90 million plus almost 2 million more votes of people that showed up, all of these votes didn't go to Lula da Silva.

It's impossible this happened. Lula increased his, uh, his, uh, votes in all of the states, even in the very right-wing states as Santa Catarina, where we elected the governor and the two senators.

Yeah. We dominated the election in Santa Catarina, also Rio de Janeiro, also in Roraima, and some other states.

And in these places you are going to tell me that Lula scored way better than Flávio? Come on.

No, it's impossible, and the world is watching now.

The one concern is now that your brother is here, you have Democrats who just took the House, and some of these Democrats are saying, "We need to look into how that whole situation unfolded and how he was given the refuge here in the States."

Are you worried at all that the Democrats are now gonna try and make problems for your brother and yourself?

They'll try, yeah, but it's not up to the Congress here in United States by the Constitution, the American law, the Congress to revoke visas or to revoke citizenships.

So I'm not really afraid about that. And, uh, my situation is 100% legal.

Yeah. I'm 100% legal, as my brother and his family.

And I don't think it's fair this kind of treatment because some issues wouldn't be, uh, about right and left.

For example, everybody do agree that our ladies running away from Iran because if they would have been in Iran not wearing the hijab, they would get even killed. Yeah.

So it's not fair you sending this kind of the people back to the dictatorship.

I'm talking about Iran. I could have been talking here about Venezuela, as we are talking now about Brazil.

So it's only to open your eyes. Yeah. Do you really protect the freedom?

You really respect the rule of law? Or do you want a Chinese dictatorship in your homeland?

Would you consider at this point Brazil a dictatorship?

The country of Brazil would be considered a dictatorship in your opinion?

Sure, because, uh, even, even the congressman, I saw that when I was in the Congress.

Before you in the Congress go to do a speech, sometimes you discuss among your friends, "Can I say about it?

Can I touch this point? Can I really debate about this issue?"

Because everybody's afraid about the censorship.

We had a congressman, his name, name is Daniel Silveira, that did go to the jail for about three or four years because he did a video criticizing the Supreme Courts.

So it's, it's unbelievable what is going on, but this is reality in Brazil.

And thank you very much, Joe, to give me the opportunity to speak about it to the, your audience. Of course.

And if you would give one message to the people of Brazil directly, what would your message be? Even in Portuguese, English, whatever you prefer.

Uh-huh. The movement of, uh, Bolsonaro is very strong.

We have a lot of influence in the Congress.

We are basically controlling the Senate.

We elected the most, uh, uh, number of state governors.

We have a lot of allies. We have international allies.

So it's nothing over. We only lost, officially at least, this election, and we are going to still be working, full of energy, to rescue our country. We will never give up.

This is the main message. Thank you so much. Thank you, Joe.

Thank you. Thank you.