Bolsonaro becomes a bewildered Scheherazade, waiting for the day he will be arrested.

Bolsonaro has become a storyteller. One day he says that if he wanted to, he could have fled Brazil. The next, he says he'll accept prison and that he even wakes up thinking about the morning the Federal Police will wake him up.

He says he could launch Michelle's presidential candidacy and then become her Chief of Staff. But the next day he says he hasn't negotiated anything with Michelle and that his children could succeed him.

And he goes on telling endless, nonsensical stories, as if he were creating his own caricature of a clumsy, somewhat deranged, male Scheherazade, struggling to escape the clutches of justice and the moment when the Federal Police will knock on his door. Bolsonaro is disoriented.

He already said that if he were to become president again, he would never again have so many generals around him. That Mario Fernandes, the general accused of plotting the assassination of Lula, Alckmin, and Moraes, planned something improbable. Not because it would be reckless, but because Moraes was surrounded by bodyguards.

During Trump's week, Bolsonaro generated a headline a day through interviews on radio, TV, blogs, podcasts, and anything else that could guarantee viewership. He was always treated like a friend by the interviewers.

Apparently, there was a method to producing confusing stories, which even included the news that he would launch a cryptocurrency, as Trump did shortly before taking office. 

The news about the "Bolsocoin" was denied by Carluxo, who claimed that his father's social media account had been hacked. But soon after, Bolsonaro supporters who understand money announced and actually created the "Patriotacoin."

What all this reveals is that the far right is having a field day with its thousand and one nights of impunity, both here and in the dance halls of Washington.

Until the day he is arrested, Bolsonaro intends to employ a trick that has its merits: inventing stories, proposing endless scenarios, stalling, and even giving some literary meaning to his drama.

Bolsonaro is trying to buy time, with the many possible versions of what could happen to him and those around him, because that way he keeps us hypnotized by his creative rhetoric.

All of his statements this week made headlines and were transformed into topics that were worked on diligently and seriously by the major newspapers. 

The mainstream media takes Bolsonaro seriously because no other figure has yet emerged capable of replacing him as the leader of the anti-Lula movement.

Globo, Folha, and Estadão are depending on Bolsonaro, right up until the 52nd minute of extra time, to continue attacking Lula and the government and threatening everyone with the old man with the sack.

While they use Bolsonaro, they desperately try to find someone who can take his place, even on the far right, because a centrist solution is already an irreversible mirage.

Folha, Globo, and Estadão are begging the Sherezade that has taken over Bolsonaro: for God's sake, tell us more.