Jair Bolsonaro checks into Florida hospital in wake of Brazil riots – By Jesse O’Neill (New York Post) / Jan 9, 2023
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro checked into a Florida hospital with “abdominal pain” a day after his supporters stormed his country’s hall of government in a violent raid that evoked the riot at the US Capitol two years ago.
Bolsonaro, a retired military officer, was feeling “discomfort” relating to an attack on the campaign trail in 2018. It was the latest medical emergency for Bolsonaro, who had recently been hospitalized for gut blockages due to the stabbing.
Bolsonaro had fled to the US two days before his term — and presidential immunity from prosecution — expired as he repeated false claims of election fraud in his contest with President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
As thousands of his loyalists ransacked Brasília’s Three Powers Square featuring its Congress, Supreme Court and presidential palace, the former far-right strongman was at a suburban Orlando bolthole owned by former UFC fighter Jose Aldo, where he had been seeing hosting supporters, shopping at a Florida grocery store and eating at KFC.
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