🚨🇧🇷 Brazil's Federal Police are reportedly searching the country's border crossings, trying to determine if Flávio Bolsonaro has fled the country... There's NOTHING indicating he has, but Lula's government is apparently quite worried about it. A day after the election, Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered Bolsonaro to surrender his passport to the Federal Police within 24 hrs. His allies are denying he fled, and I'm NOT buying it either... But Argentine news site Infobae reported earlier that he had crossed the border, using a nat'l identity document. For now, it's nothing but a rumor, but should also give you insight into just how deranged Lula is... The man some want to praise is nothing more than an authoritarian POS, going after his political opponents. Source: Folha de Sao Paulo / Writer: Michael

🇧🇷🇺🇸 Flavio Bolsonaro dropped his fight to annul the election minutes after Trump called it "rigged" but gave no sign he'd step in Trump told reporters the vote “looked so corrupt, so terrible” and that elections “have to be indisputable,” then stopped there. Flavio, who’d spent the morning calling the extended voting hours a “dirty trick,” came out right after and shrank the challenge to a routine lawsuit over Lula raising welfare payments before the runoff. The extension was ordered by a justice who used to be Lula’s personal lawyer, and the judge holding Flavio’s passport is the one who jailed his father. Look at what Lula’s Brazil did to the man who beat him in round one. The father locked up for 27 years, the brother sentenced for talking to Washington, the candidate’s passport taken the morning after he lost, and the only part of the state that ruled on the election is staffed by the president’s old lawyers. Flavio didn’t lose an argument, he was told what happens to his family if he keeps making it... Any conservative in Latin America who thought winning the first round protects you just learned it doesn’t, because Washington is watching from the curb. Source: Washington Post / Writer: Daniel

🇧🇷 Alexandre de Moraes grounded Flavio Bolsonaro the morning after he lost... and a police dossier ties Moraes to the same banker scandal he's using against him Moraes ordered the passport seizure over Flavio's links to a lawyer accused of laundering more than $1 billion, plus money Flavio raised for a biopic of his father from banker Daniel Vorcaro. The problem: a police dossier suggests Vorcaro also texted Moraes asking for help dodging arrest, and told associates he paid millions to a law firm run by the judge's wife. Moraes denies it. Nobody has taken his passport. So Brazil's most powerful judge is investigating the opposition for touching a banker's money while sitting on questions about the same banker's money reaching his own household, and Lula's government hasn't said a word about it. Flavio is disputing the result and his brother is in Texas pushing Washington to bring the sanctions on Moraes back. This is the judge who ran the father’s trial, tried to ban X and Telegram, got himself sanctioned by Washington, and now polices the son the morning after the election, so at some point Brazil has to admit that a man who keeps landing at the center of every scandal involving the opposition IS THE SCANDAL. Source: New York Times / Writer: Daniel