[BBC NEWS] How Trump’s allies stoked Brazil Congress attack

Protesters smash windows as they invade the presidential palace in scenes reminiscent of the US Capitol riot in January 2021

The scenes in Brasilia looked eerily similar to events at the US Capitol on 6 January two years ago – and there are deeper connections as well.

“The whole thing smells,” said a guest on Steve Bannon’s podcast, one day after the first round of voting in the Brazilian election in October last year.

The race was heading towards a run-off and the final result was not even close to being known. Yet Mr Bannon, as he had been doing for weeks, spread baseless rumours about election fraud.

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24 Comments

  1. Tired of the fake news
    January 11, 2023

    DNO.. Your anti-trump bias is showing… cover jt up. Children browse uour website. No indicency should be allowed. Thanks.

    • So Tell Me Then
      January 12, 2023

      From all appearances DeSantis is again going to one-up Trump and run the Brazil government overthrow from the U.S. Just watch 🤠

  2. Lin clown
    January 11, 2023

    Here we go again.A UWP know-it-all, is trying to make people believe the US Democrats are communists.The house NIG does not know what” Let’s make America great again mean”Political understanding.The 2019 election observers said the election held in Dominica was Free and fair and reflected the will of the people,and conducted according to the ELECTORAL laws of Dominica.The same was said after the 2022 election in Dominica.In the USA,Brazil and Dominica,terrorists tried to overthrow the government of the people by the people.

  3. Lin clown
    January 11, 2023

    J.John- Charles is posting a load of BS.Donald Trump has no use for foreigners especially black people.Barack Obama gave people who could not afford medical insurance,FREE insurance targeting mostly black.The Clown is one of those who profitted from Barack Obama’s medical insurance.What did Donald Trump do about Obama’s medical insurance?That is a question to J.John- Charles.If it was for the sake of Trump black people like J.John-Charles would never be US citizens.Hitler once said during the second world war(1939-1945)if he had his way he would skin every black man to white,that is Donald Trump.I guess J.John-Charles went to the USA late.

    • There's more
      January 12, 2023

      Obama’s insurance actually targets The Poor, but, mostly whites benefit from it.

  4. Ibo France
    January 10, 2023

    CARICOM has issued a statement condemning the unfortunate events in Brazil. Nothing is wrong about that but this is my problem.

    When heads of CARICOM commit blatant wrongs, and are involved in obvious corruption, especially concerning elections, all heads of CARICOM remains stoically reticent. Hypocrites all!

    There are three things in this world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny. Members of CARICOM are guilty of all three.

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  5. Eagle-Eyed
    January 10, 2023

    @J.John-Charles, If you love Trump so much, i’m sure there will be extra space in a cell for you to go and keep him company once he’s locked up for all his crime including his part in trying to overthrow the legitimately elected Biden government on January 6th. May be you can be his b….. while he is locked away from his wife. :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

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    • Fact Check
      January 10, 2023

      It’s been two year since january 6th still no indictments or charges except for the couple poor senior citizens they made an example of putting them in solitary confinement for walking into what they call “the people’s house”. Meanwhile RAY EPPS who is documented on several videos encouraging people to go INTO the capitol and the police who shot that lady for no reason still haven’t faced any kind of punishment.

      This was an obvious fed operation and most americans don’t even know what happened on january 6th. Some dominican diaspora are more concerned about january 6th than americans because it’s one of their hopes to get rid of Trump forever (it will never happen) because they know once he get back in office some of them getting a one way ticket back to their country

      • Fact Check This
        January 12, 2023

        Sorry JJ, Trump is not coming back. Not if the Klan in the Repub camp has their way. DeSantis of Florida, more fascist and anti-black than Donald is already their man. Your boy Trump is washed up, even if he exports his hostile communist habits to other friendly countries to take over gov’t.

  6. Lin clown
    January 10, 2023

    Some of these UWP supporters think like them,the majority of Dominicans are aholes.Some people charged in the January 6 attempted coup have already been convicted and sent to jail.The supporters of Donald Trump went to the Capitol seeking to keep him in power by preventing a Joint Session of Congress from counting the electoral votes.All accused said they went to the Capitol because of Trump.On the night ofFebruary7 2017 in Dominica,Lennox Linton was recorded by the media whore saying”what is going on there will continue untill Skerrit demits office or resign”The same night Thompson Fontaine was also recorded tell the police the truck will not follow direction given to the driver by the said police.The difference be the Capitol attempted coup,the Brazilian attempted coup and the Dominican attempted coup,is that in Dominica nobody was arrested.And that is due to the incompetence,laziness,slackness and ignorance of members of the police force.The same destruction happened in Dominica.

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  7. J.John-Charles
    January 10, 2023

    DNO this month is two yrs Biden is in office, Are you telling us, you are unable to find a single fault in him or his administration? You and the other medias in the U.S. like CNN and others, have spent over 7yrs printing or reprinting negative articles about Trump. (Let me give Jack his jacket, DNO have been sleeping on Biden’s reign)
    Biden is far worse than Trump in every area. So do us a favor, call your favorite journalist, Ambassador Ward and ask him to write something about Biden’s performance, and we will know if he is still bias like the others.

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    • Just Asking
      January 10, 2023

      You’d think it’s because Biden never invited any ex- head of state of a foreign country to the U.S to supervise the overthrow of a friendly government from Florida maybe??

  8. Eagle-Eyed
    January 9, 2023

    The sooner Trump and the likes of Bolsonaro are fitted in orange jump suits and locked away in a dungeon somewhere where they can’t be seen or heard, the sooner the rest of the world can sleep in peace. These far right white supremacists want to control the world and all its resources to enrich themselves by using cult like strategies to control their blind followers to do their dirty work while they remain poor. Despicable Trump, Bolsonaro, Netanyahu etc all have one thing in common, to establish white power all over the world. Biden should lock up Trump and detain Bolsonaro while he is a guest of Trump in Florida.

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  9. Dreadidiah
    January 9, 2023

    Everything is Trump. Just put his name in the headline as a way to get clicks. This is getting tiresome. Move on already.

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    • Eagle-Eyed
      January 10, 2023

      maybe because he is a crook and criminal who openly admit that he would want to tear up the American constitution and establish a far-right dictatorship. Colored people like you would be deported and replaced by white Europeans.

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      • Dreadidiah
        January 10, 2023

        Trump is finished, he will not ever be president again. He is depending on stupid people who say things like what you said to keep him relevant.

        This is just like when we used to watch wrestling. There were people we just loved to hate, not knowing it was all a show. Same thing here, hating on people who have no relevance other than publicity for publicity’s sake.

      • Fake News
        January 10, 2023

        Nonsense you talking dread. where the man ever say that? You all just repeat things you hear people say or just make up lies because you hate somebody.

  10. Channel 1
    January 9, 2023

    The anti-Trump cabal & their sycophantic agents (covert & overt) continue to find all sorts of ways to lambast, harass and blame Trump & his supporters for all kinds of things. The anti-Trump cabalists don’t like those they cannot control.

    Reminds me of a certain country in the Caribbean where similar tactics continue to be used. The leader in that particular country claimed a few years ago that opposition forces tried to overthrow him with a dump truck equipped with loud speakers & a music system. In that country, some members of the opposition continue to be maliciously persecuted in the courts on all sorts of trumped up charges.

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    • make it make sense
      January 10, 2023

      Funny thing is that a lot of opposition people compare Skerrit to Trump, not realizing that the labor government is more in line with the democrats than anything else especially when it come to corrupt elections and political maneuvering. Just goes to show that here both sides are just as bad. We don’t have anything like the republican party in dominica because our people don’t have that culture of being informed politically and understanding ideologies and so on. The only people that get to any level of political undestanding are those that get indoctrinated into communism because they went to study in some communist country like Cuba or Venezuela or because they watch some documentary made by an Israeli/CIA operative

      • There's more
        January 12, 2023

        Trump and his boys are communists hiding behind the cloaks of fascists. Just look how they oppose Biden’s support for Ukraine against Russia. Hasn’t Trump been the keen supporter of Putin and also his rocket-boy Kim Un whom he allowed to build nukes. That man is pure fake, quit salivating over him already Channel 1/JJ.

  11. Fake News
    January 9, 2023

    Barely anybody in the US cares about Jan 6. I doubt anybody in Dominica does except for those one or two diaspora who still don’t have their papers yet and they mad at Trump because he wanted to end illegal immigration lmao

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    • lmckoy
      January 10, 2023

      It appears you don’t know what ‘barely’ means.

    • Fake This
      January 10, 2023

      Isn’t that why the judges that Trump rushed to appoint gave Biden the presidency and the people recently gave him the Senate? yak yak

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