Brazil's former President Bolsonaro to wear ankle monitor
Brazil's former President Bolsonaro to wear ankle monitor
Brazil's supreme court has ordered former President Jair Bolsonaro to wear an ankle monitor.
The decision came as the former president's home and party headquarters in Brasilia were searched on Friday.
Members of Bolsonaro's right-wing Liberal Party said he was also ordered to stop using social media and end communications with diplomats.
I would say "and THAT is how you do it, America"
But I have no faith in this sticking. Mr. Pockets is made of Teflon.
I mean to their credit they made it way farther into the judicial process than we ever did with Trump.
You'd be surprised at how hard Latin America can go on their corrupt presidents. Peru is a good example, with many ex-presidents in jail or in exile cause they'd go to jail if they ever went back home. One even shot himself (kinda sorta on live TV too!) to avoid incarceration. 🙃
I wouldn’t be so sure. They drug Lula out of his house in the dead of night in his underpants and imprisoned him for corruption previously. It now seems that the arrest was for more political rather than criminal reasons, but it also shows that the Brazilian people have a much larger appetite for imprisoning former presidents than Americans do. I would not be surprised if Bolsonaro sees real jail time.
They did
And make no mistake Lula is also a crook, he just so happens to be a crook I'm aligned politically with (reformist leftist rather than neofascist)
But that just further proves the Teflon claim:
He did get locked up.
And now he's president again.
Idk how it is in the first world
But over here it's pretty much a known fact that every politician is a Mafioso first and a politician second. When they do get in trouble it's usually because they messed up enough in the political sphere that the other crooks decide to use the apparatus of law to fuck them over. Because if it were about their crimes they'd ALL be behind bars.
That's just false.
They rewrote the law so that the judges that judged were the wrong ones, decided that this invalidated the judgement that already happened, and that no existing judge had the authority to rule over the case. He wasn't deemed non-guilty of anything, no evidence was found wrong, and no crime was corrected.
They'd have trouble getting a monitor around mushroom dick's swollen ankles.
If he stops making newsworth content, the news will be tempted to fill their space with other, less egregious corruption scandals.
So, I don't expect him to go out free, but I really expect him to keep just enough freedom he needs to keep throwing shit around.