For the second time in three years, Steve Bannon has been linked to an incident of right-wing supporters of a president storming a congressional building while supporting false claims of voter fraud.
In scenes reminiscent of when followers of Donald Trump attacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, supporters of far-right former Brazil president Jair Bolsonaro stormed Congress, the Supreme Court, and the presidential palace in the federal capital Brasilia on Sunday.
During the attempted coup, which took place a week after the inauguration of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, thousands of Bolsonaro supporters draped in green and yellow—the colors of the national flag, adopted by the right-wing movement—ransacked the buildings while demanding the defeated former president be restored to power.
The incident was the culmination of months of rallies and protests in Brazil as Bolsonaro and his supporters pushed the false claim that the October 2022 election was rigged due to widespread voter fraud.
Just as he did with the 2020 U.S. presidential election which Trump lost, former White House advisor Bannon has repeatedly sowed doubt about the integrity of the Brazilian presidential election.
Similar to right-wing conspiracy theories about the 2020 elections in the U.S., Bannon has long claimed that voting machines would be used in Brazil to steal the election from Bolsonaro.
Bannon continued to push these false claims after Bolsonaro supporters attacked the government...
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