Coffee Break: Youssef is back playing into the opposition's hands.
Blogger Miguel do Rosário points out that "for some time now" the money launderer "has become a professional, hired informant," and that he "brilliantly understood the game of Sergio Moro and the prosecutors: he knows that if he doesn't play along, Moro will lock him in his dungeons"; his statements to the CPI this Monday, in his "billionth testimony," are already being "hysterically" echoed by the media; "The money launderer is now making insinuations against the PT and the Planalto, accusing a bunch of people without proof," the blog points out.
By Miguel do Rosário, from Coffee
The mainstream media is hysterically reporting on Alberto Youssef's billionth testimony, this time to the Petrobras Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry. The money launderer is once again making insinuations against the Workers' Party and the Presidential Palace, accusing a bunch of people without providing any proof.
Youssef is a skilled political player. He even accuses some opposition figures to lend legitimacy to his accusations.
He has long since become a professional, hired informant.
Along with his lawyer, a very shrewd member of the PSDB party linked to Beto Richa, the money launderer brilliantly understood the game being played by Sergio Moro and the prosecutors.
He knows that if he doesn't play the game, Moro will lock him in his dungeons. Otherwise, he will be pardoned for the umpteenth time by the same Sergio Moro.
It's good to remember the following facts (I suggest you check all the links):
1) Youssef's lawyer, Antonio Augusto Lopes Figueiredo Basto, worked with the PSDB for many years.
2) The same lawyer who represented Youssef, while serving as an advisor to Sanepar, previously benefited the main sponsor of Álvaro Dias's campaign. Álvaro Dias, a senator from the PSDB party, also frequently flew on the money launderer's private jets. This sponsor, Joel Malucelli, Álvaro Dias's first alternate, owns Globo's repeater stations in Paraná and is the richest man in the state. His main business is in civil construction, and he would be the main beneficiary of the disappearance or bankruptcy of the construction companies involved in Lava Jato.
3) Alberto Youssef has a long history as an operator for the PSDB party.
4) There is an even more serious factor. In his previous testimony to the same Sergio Moro, the money launderer used the plea bargain to destroy his competitors and emerge as the biggest money launderer in the country. In other words, Youssef learned how to use the institution of the plea bargain, and the "reward" he granted himself was much greater than that officially offered by the State. There are allegations that he had the cooperation of the Judiciary and the Public Prosecutor's Office.
5) Youssef accuses Vaccari's sister-in-law, thus saving Sergio Moro's skin, whose main disgrace in recent weeks was ordering her arrest "by mistake," after thinking she was the one appearing in a video (it wasn't her) depositing R$ 2 into her sister's account. With Youssef's testimony, Moro gains a political reprieve.
The fact that he lied in his previous testimonies is omitted by the media.
The important thing here is no longer to prove anything, but rather to materialize a political and media condemnation, which does not need to go through the irritating bureaucracy of the penal code, which grants citizens the right to a second trial and appeals.
Anything goes in the name of politics.
But Lava Jato seems to be using its last resources. The judicial conspiracies have entered a more desperate phase. This weekend, Folha leaked a plea bargain that wasn't even signed by a businessman. In other words, it denounced the informant himself! If leaking its contents before there is evidence is already absurd and a violation of the purpose of a plea bargain (which is not to side with the criminal), what to say about this leak even before the informant reaches an agreement with the prosecution, that is, before signing a statement?
The insinuations against Lula reflect the current momentum, which is aimed at destroying the image of the former president.
Globo, through Época magazine, launched a very strong campaign against Lula, and it is naive for pro-Lula social media users to think that the denials were enough.
Globo knows what it's doing. The anti-PT social media networks, which have grown excessively in recent months, are being shut down. The Lula Institute's denials, blog posts, and hashtags used by PT activists are not allowed there.
This war will not be won with Twitter campaigns. Rather, it will require a broad communication strategy, in which the federal government should participate, in the name of democracy, the honor of its party, and true justice.
At this stage of the political struggle, there is no longer any separation between Dilma and the PT. That's nonsense. Now they're both in the same boat.
The destruction of one is the destruction of the other. And vice versa.