Fearing the legal siege that has been forming due to the incitement of the coup-mongering behavior that led to vandalism against the headquarters of the three Powers on the 8th, former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL) is studying options that would allow him to stay longer in the United States. A group of businessmen from São Paulo who were sympathetic to the former president has put together an initial plan to pay for the politician's stay in the country, where he traveled to on December 30, in order to avoid participating in the inauguration of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva ( PT) on the 1st of January.
Six lectures on politics have been arranged with American businessmen, each paying US$ 10,000. Bolsonaro, according to a person with knowledge of the matter, has agreed to participate in at least one of them. The core issue, according to allies of the former president, is financial. There is an extreme lack of transparency regarding the conditions for Bolsonaro's presence in a house belonging to MMA fighter José Aldo in Kissimmee, Orlando region, Florida. Folha was unable to contact the former president's team.
The decree that regulated Bolsonaro’s departure from Brazil with an Air Force plane included 5 of the 8 employees to which he is entitled as a former president in his entourage. However, the images and reports from acquaintances show that there are many more people involved, so much so that a second house in the same condominium has been occupied by the group, headed by Bolsonaro's son Carlos, councilman for the party Republicanos do Rio ( Rio's Republicans).
Translated by Cassy Dias