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.
His hospitalization, at AdventHealth Celebration in Kissimmee outside Walt Disney World, was reported by the Rio de Janeiro newspaper O Globo.
The development came as some House Democrats had called on the Biden administration to extradite the 67-year-old to Brazil, where he is under investigation in at least four criminal probes, including lying about the election results, leaning on the federal police to protect his sons and harboring a disinformation troll...
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