BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro continued his attack on hounds on a public occasion on Monday, describing the hounds as “mauviettes” and saying they had a greater threat of being died by COVID-19 because they were athletic.
The former captain of the right-wing army has long had a complicated relationship with the media, pointing to express newspapers and news hounds for their anger. His supporters also attacked news hounds at rallies and other public events.
On Sunday, Bolsonaro told a journalist, “I’m going to punch you in the face,” after the reporter asked for thousands of dollars that were transferred to the bank account of the president’s wife through a former adviser who now it is the target of corruption. .
During Monday’s event, entitled “Defeat COVID-19”, Bolsonaro described his own joy in the fight against the virus in July, attributing his use of hydroxychloroquine to an unproven drug and his athlete history for his mild symptoms. his sport beyond made him immune to the worst of coronaviruses.
“This story of an athlete, the press enjoyed it, but when (COVID-19) has one of you weak, your chances of survival are a little lower,” Bolsonaro told reporters Monday, the colloquial Portuguese word ‘bundao’.
“You only know how to do evil, use a pen largely for evil. Your chances of survival are a little lower. “
Earlier this month, the media reported that the assistant, Fabricio Queiroz, had deposited 72,000 reais ($12,900) in checks in Michelle Bolsonaro’s account between 2011 and 2018.
Queiroz, an assistant to Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, the president’s eldest son, when he was an MP for the state of Rio de Janeiro, was arrested as part of an investigation into bank deposits made at the time, worth 1. 2 million reais.
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Reporting through Lisandra Umbrellasu; Writing through Gram Slattery; Edited through Rosalba O’Brien
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