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2 hours ago, Metalhead said:

Does being hospitalized prevent extradition? Seems suspicious. I wonder if a hospital with religious affiliations creates obstacles as well.

 

 

Nailed it. As soon as US lawmakers started calling for his extradition, he came down with "abdominal pains." 

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$1,600 for ice cream: Bolsonaro credit card bill raises eyebrows

 

More than $21,000 splurged at a modest restaurant -- $10,700 spent at a bakery in a single day. The public release Friday of ex-president Jair Bolsonaro's official credit card expenditures is raising eyebrows in Brazil.

 

More than 27.6 million reais -- more than $5 million at today's exchange rate -- was charged to the far-right president's card during his four-year term, according to account statements published Friday on a government website.

 

Unlike his predecessors, Bolsonaro threw a 100-year secrecy veil over presidential credit card expenditures among other official information, which successor Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has begun lifting.

 

Bolsonaro and 21 members of his team had access to the card.

 

Adjusted for inflation, the full amount charged to the card is almost half that spent during Lula's first four-year term beginning in 2003 -- though he used the card mainly for accommodations while traveling abroad.

 

Bolsonaro had frequently claimed not to have charged "a single penny" to the card.

 

But analysis of the newly-opened records by the Uol news website found that today's equivalent of more than $235,000 was spent by Bolsonaro while on vacation in 2019, 2020 and 2021.

 

Nearly $14,000 was spent on a single visit to a petrol station, and another $286,000 on several visits to a luxury hotel in Guaruja, a seaside resort near Sao Paulo.

 

According to the website G1, the hotel housed members of Bolsonaro's entourage, while he stayed at a military complex.

 

On one visit to a restaurant in Boa Vista in the Amazonian state of Roraima, the presidential card was used to pay a bill of more than $21,000.

 

That would be enough for an order of 2,000 plates of the restaurant's most expensive dish: roast chicken with a side starch, which costs a little less than $10.

 

The card was also used to charge more than more than $71,000 over four years at a bakery in Rio de Janeiro.

 

Of this amount, almost $11,000 was spent in one go: on the day after the wedding of Bolsonaro's son. It also happened to be the eve of a motorbike rally organized by Bolsonaro supporters through the streets of Rio.

 

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Bolsonaro’s trial on abuse of political power charges begins in Brazil

 

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s trial on charges of abuse of political power and misuse of public media began in the country’s highest electoral court on Thursday in Brasilia.

 

The charges stem from a meeting Bolsonaro held with foreign diplomats in July 2022, in which he is accused of spreading false information about Brazil’s electoral system and bringing its credibility into question – a strategy the former president used in his reelection campaign.

 

If found guilty, Bolsonaro could be ruled ineligible to run for public office for up to eight years.

 

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Brazil Bars Bolsonaro From Office for Election-Fraud Claims

 

Brazilian election officials on Friday blocked former President Jair Bolsonaro from seeking public office until 2030, removing a top contender from the next presidential contest and dealing a significant blow to the country’s far-right movement.

 

Brazil’s electoral court ruled that Mr. Bolsonaro had violated Brazil’s election laws when, less than three months ahead of last year’s vote, he called diplomats to the presidential palace and made baseless claims that the nation’s voting systems were likely to be rigged against him.

 

Five of the court's seven judges voted that Mr. Bolsonaro had abused his power as president when he convened the meeting with diplomats and broadcast it on state television.

 

“This response will confirm our faith in the democracy,” said Alexandre de Moraes, a Supreme Court justice who leads the electoral court, as he cast his vote against Mr. Bolsonaro.

 

The decision is a sharp and swift rebuke of Mr. Bolsonaro and his effort to undermine Brazil’s elections. Just six months ago, Mr. Bolsonaro was president of one of the world’s largest democracies. Now his career as a politician is in jeopardy.

 

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Now if only the US would do the same with Trump.

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Bolsonaro Again Ruled Ineligible to Hold Public Office by Brazil Electoral Court

 

A majority of judges on Brazil’s top electoral court voted to declare Jair Bolsonaro ineligible to seek or hold public office for a second time on Tuesday, ruling that the former right-wing president abused his power during last year’s independence day celebrations.

 

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Now if we could only figure out how to do this here.  I don't have a lot of faith that the ongoing court proceeding in Colorado will be ultimately successful.  I think Trump may be initially precluded from the ballot, but will ultimately be allowed on when it gets to the Supreme Court.

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