2024-07-18 02:54:24
Former Brazilian President, Jair Bolsonarosaid this Sunday that Donald Trump narrowly escaped death on Saturday and compared the attempted assassination of the US presidential candidate to the stabbing he himself suffered during his 2018 campaign.
Let us remember that The Brazilian far-right politician was stabbed in the abdomen by a man who burst into the crowd during a rally in Minas Gerais.
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“Doctors said it was a miracle that I survived in 2018, considering the severity of my injuries, and he (Trump) was saved by a few centimeters“Bolsonaro told reporters in São Paulo on Sunday.
The United States is currently investigating the attempted assassination of Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania last Saturday. The 78-year-old Republican was wounded in the ear and the shooter, a 20-year-old man, was shot dead, one rally-goer was killed and two other people were seriously injured.
The attack has shocked the country and opens a dark chapter in the polarized electoral race. for the November elections in the United StatesBolsonaro’s son also drew parallels between the attacks.
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“They tried to kill Trump, they tried to kill Bolsonarobut it is the right that is accused of being violent,” wrote Senator Flávio Bolsonaro in X.
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a leftist, said the attack “must be firmly condemned by all defenders of democracy.”
Like the United States, Brazil experienced strong polarization and challenges to its democracy in recent years.
(With information from AFP)
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