The top Donald Trump ally had long attempted to cast doubts on the integrity of Brazil's presidential election before Sunday's attack.
Separately, Bannon posted on Gettr in October that the Brazil election"was stolen in broad daylight," soon after Bolsonaro's defeat.
Bannon has been linked to Bolsonaro and his attempts to cast doubts on the integrity of the Brazilian presidential election.reported that Eduardo Bolsonaro, a member of Brazil's Chamber of Deputies and the former president's son, had spoken with Bannon who was advising Bolsonaro's team in the wake of his election defeat.
Bannon is said to have spoken with Eduardo Bolsonaro whilst he was in Arizona assisting the campaign of GOP gubernatorial candidatereported that Bannon called on Bolsonaro to contest the Brazil election results as it would help bolster his support and encourage protesters."The people are saying they've been grossly disenfranchised. [The movement] has moved beyond the Bolsonaros in the way that in the U.S. it has moved beyond Trump.
Bannon added:"Once they start taking and digitizing the elections, once they start going to machines where you can't get paper ballots—you don't have proof of ID, they're taken away from the precincts, they start to centralize it in collection centers—that's all done for one reason. That's to consistently steal elections because they know they don't have the backing of the people.
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