Ramin Dharmaratne

🇧🇷🇺🇸 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