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\n Brazilian right-wing presidential candidate Fl\u00e1vio Bolsonaro holds a picture of his father, convicted former President Jair Bolsonaro, during a motorcade with supporters in Goiania, Brazil, on Sept. 27, 2026. <\/span>\u00a0Photo: Sergio Lima\/AFP via Getty Images<\/span> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Andrew Fishman is an investigative journalist based in Rio de Janeiro and the president of The Intercept Brasil.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cI never thought<\/span> about leaving the country,\u201d Fl\u00e1vio Bolsonaro, a Brazilian senator and son of the deposed, disgraced leader, told<\/a> his 16 million Instagram followers on Monday. It was the day after he lost the presidential election to President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva by a margin of more than 4 million votes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fl\u00e1vio promised to stay in Brazil to \u201corganize the opposition\u201d during Lula\u2019s next term.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m the last obstacle to the Workers\u2019 Party\u2019s plan to destroy the country,\u201d Fl\u00e1vio warned, referring to the party of Lula, who defeated his father four years earlier.<\/p>\n

A few hours later, he left his mansion in Brasilia and sought asylum in the U.S. The Trump State Department told<\/a> the Associated Press that it will grant him and his family visas.<\/p>\n

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The affinities become obvious when you watch Bolsonaro\u2019s failsons end up in Trump\u2019s America.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t take ?sides, but it looked like another rigged election,\u201d President Donald Trump told<\/a> reporters on Monday, echoing Fl\u00e1vio\u2019s election night talking points without providing any credible evidence that casts doubt on Lula\u2019s come-from-behind victory \u2014 even as Fl\u00e1vio\u2019s own party put out a statement<\/a> acknowledging the results later that day.<\/p>\n

It is no coincidence that the Trumps and the Bolsonaros are so fond of each other. Their modus operandi is nearly identical.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Both wrap themselves in the rhetoric of patriotism and moral righteousness, while treating their political offices as personal get-rich-quick schemes. And, when their lies finally catch up with them, you can be sure that they will jump ship to save themselves first and abandon their followers.<\/p>\n

The affinities become obvious when you watch Bolsonaro, his failsons, and co-conspirators all end up in Trump\u2019s America, where Fl\u00e1vio is about to join his brother, and in the denialism and violence that follow their failures.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Fl\u00e1vio Bolsonaro\u2019s election denial and hasty escape are his version of Trump\u2019s infamous January 6 speech: Rile up the troops to do your dirty work and get the hell out of the way.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not the first time a Bolsonaro ran this playbook. After Jair Bolsonaro became the first modern Brazilian president to lose a reelection bid, he refused to attend the January 2023 inauguration ceremony. Instead, he also fled to the U.S., staying<\/a> in a Minions-themed children\u2019s bedroom in the Orlando, Florida, home of retired UFC fighter Jos\u00e9 Aldo.<\/p>\n

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A week later, on January 8, the ex-president\u2019s allies laid siege to the capital, Bras\u00edlia, vandalizing Congress, the presidential palace and the Supreme Court, as foot soldiers in a larger coup plot to overthrow the Lula government. Nearly four decades of Brazilian democracy was only spared when key military leaders blinked before they could finish the job.<\/p>\n

Jair Bolsonaro eventually returned to Brazil and was sentenced<\/a> to 27 years in prison for leading the plot, which included a plan to assassinate Lula, Vice President Geraldo Alckmin, and Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes. Allies, including top military brass, were also convicted. Jair remains under house arrest \u2014 widely thought to be pinning his hopes for freedom on a Fl\u00e1vio presidency that wasn\u2019t to be.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fl\u00e1vio, however, will not be lonely in the States. His brother, former Brazilian Congress member Eduardo Bolsonaro, just received<\/a> green cards for his family and is living in a $1.2 million McMansion in Southlake, Texas, in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, as we revealed<\/a> in The Intercept Brasil earlier this year. Eduardo, who is a regular on the Trumpworld circuit, was sentenced in absentia to four years and two months in prison for lobbying the U.S. government to interfere in his father\u2019s trial.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fl\u00e1vio, too, seems poised to receive news of his own prison sentence while sitting on a couch in a Texas suburb. In May, our reporting at The Intercept Brasil put the first nail in the coffin of his presidential campaign when we published<\/a> chat logs and audio recordings of the senator negotiating $24 million \u2014 and being wired $10 million \u2014 from disgraced billionaire banker Daniel Vorcaro, who is a sort of Brazilian cross between Charles Ponzi and Jeffrey Epstein.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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