Malafaia again calls Moraes a dictator.

247 - The pro-Bolsonaro evangelical leader Silas Malafaia once again called Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes a dictator. In a video released on his social media this Friday (9), Malafaia expresses hatred towards the magistrate, responsible for authorizing Operation Tempus Veritatis, launched on Thursday (8) by the Federal Police (PF) which carried out 33 search and seizure warrants and four preventive arrest warrants against those involved with the coup attempt of January 8. Among the main targets are former President Jair Bolsonaro, his advisors, as well as major figures in the Army such as four-star generals Augusto Heleno, of the Institutional Security Office (GSI), and Walter Braga Netto, then Minister of the Civil House of Bolsonaro.

In the nearly five-minute video, Malafaia says that "the dictator in a robe, Alexandre de Moraes, is destroying the Democratic Rule of Law." Malafaia condemns the actions of the operation that "raided the homes of high-ranking general officers, active-duty military personnel. They ordered the seizure of the president's [Bolsonaro's] passport. This is a smokescreen to hide the truth of the facts," argues the religious leader.   >>>  Moraes lifts the secrecy and makes public the video of Bolsonaro's coup-plotting ministerial meeting; watch the full recording.

A ministerial meeting held on July 5, 2022, led by former President Jair Bolsonaro, has emerged as evidence of a coup attempt, according to a video obtained by the Federal Police. In the meeting, the then-president urged his ministers to act before the elections, warning that if they waited to react, Brazil would face chaos. The footage, which captures more than an hour of the meeting, shows Bolsonaro in a visibly altered state, launching attacks against his then-opponent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and members of the Supreme Federal Court, including Alexandre de Moraes, Edson Fachin, and Luís Roberto Barroso.

During the meeting, Bolsonaro expressed his conviction that Lula would win the elections due to alleged fraud that, according to him, had already been planned even before the start of the electoral contest, scheduled for October 2, 2022. The president instructed his ministers to question the electoral process and to act preventively, indicating that the government could not allow the elections to take place as planned.