Like Trump, Brazil’s Bolsonaro, threatens ‘lying media’

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Brazil’s president elect, Jair Bolsonaro; threatens Brazil’s ‘lying media’

Brazil president-elect Jair Bolsonaro appears to have an agenda like US President Donald Trump, quickly picking on Brazil’s critical media and tagging them ‘lying media’.

In an interview with Globo TV, he said he would withdraw government advertising from media outlets he deemed to be “lying”.

In an interview on Globo TV’s national evening news, Bolsonaro also said he would like crusading anti-graft judge Sergio Moro to become his justice minister and eventually, take a seat on the Supreme Court when an opening arose.

The press is not the only target of Jair Bolsonaro, the far-right former Army captain.

He also said he would press ahead with loosening gun laws this year and plans to visit Washington D.C. after a friendly call with U.S. President Donald Trump.

Bolsonaro, who early in his legislative career declared he was “in favour” of dictatorships and demanded that Congress…



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