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Jair Bolsonaro, seen here during an evangelical service at the National Convention in Brasilia, Brazil, on August 3, 2022.
BRAZIL — Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro had an altercation with a YouTuber on Thursday, August 18, who challenged and insulted him and tried to grab his phone while filming the scene before starting a conversation with him.
The news site G1 published the video of the incident (see below), who identifies the YouTuber as Wilker Leao, followed by 127,000 people on TikTok and who describes himself as a lawyer, army corporal and political addict.
We see Wilker Leao approach President Bolsonaro, who greets his supporters who wanted to take a selfie with him in front of the Alvorada Palace in Brasilia, and in particular asks him, while filming himself, why he formed an alliance with a fog of Trading parties expressed their support for benefits that Centrao.
A stranger pushed him aside and threw him to the ground. He got up, approached him again, insulted the president, who had meanwhile gotten into his car, as a “coward”, “tramp” and “Centrao whore”.
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“Come here, I want to talk to you”
Then Jair Bolsonaro got out of the car, approached the man and tried to grab his phone. “Come here, I want to talk to you,” the president said, grabbing Wilker Leao’s arm and the collar of the football jersey he was wearing.
Presidential Security then quickly intervened and put the YouTuber away.
A few minutes later, Jair Bolsonaro started a conversation with him, with the two men separated by a line of bodyguards.
“I have to get things through Parliament, don’t I? we hear the President say before he returns to his car and leaves.
Jair Bolsonaro, a 67-year-old ex-army captain, is running for re-election against former leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (2003-2010) in October.
Wilker Leao, who regularly posts videos in which supporters of various political parties ask provocative questions, calls Lula’s Labor Party (PT) “shabby”.
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