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Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro Predicts Three Outcomes to Election: Death, Jail, or Re-Election

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The president of Brazil told a group of supporters that arrest is the least likely because “no man on Earth will threaten me.”

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Brazil’s Trumpian president Jair Bolsonaro has made a provocative prediction ahead of next year’s elections. “I have three alternatives for my future: being arrested, killed or victory,” he told evangelical leaders at a campaign event on Saturday, according to BBC. He then added that jail seemed least likely since “no man on Earth will threaten me.” The right-wing leader does have some experience with his death theory, having survived a murder attempt in 2018 when a hater almost stabbed him to death on the campaign trail leading to his first term victory. The 66-year-old has already taken a page out of Trump’s playbook ahead of the election next year by questioning whether the voting machines were trustworthy and threatening not to accept the result of the polls.

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