“Following Donald Trump’s defeat in the 2020 election, and after the bloody Jan. 6 riot that Trump instigated, the 45th U.S. president immediately lost many of his ties to world leaders he once called ‘friends.’ However, Brazil’s far-right president Jair Bolsonaro, who has modeled himself in Trump’s image, sought to keep the bromance alive. That’s something former President Trump, months after officially departing the White House, hasn’t forgotten, and has expressed some interest in returning the favor. This summer, according to two people with knowledge of the matter, Trump told confidants that he’s open to publicly endorsing Bolsonaro’s reelection, potentially at a mega-rally in Brazil where he and Bolsonaro could appear together side-by-side, to rail against what they each deem undesired election outcomes. Bolsonaro, who is widely expected to decisively fail in his reelection bid next year, has been preemptively spreading groundless claims of election ‘fraud,’ a strategy jarringly reminiscent of Trump’s failed coup in the United States.”

“Bolsonaro is expected to lose his 2022 reelection campaign to left-wing former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Ahead of that projected defeat, Bolsonaro is bringing Trump and the GOP’s baseless allegations of massive voter fraud to Brazil, part of an effort to claim victory even if he loses. ‘Here is a network of denialism in the United States that’s established after Trump loses that they can kind of plug themselves into,’ Pagliarini said. QAnon social media channels eagerly followed the Brazilian protests, casting them as ordinary Brazilians reclaiming their freedom from liberal elites. Right-wing blog The Gateway Pundit argued that pro-Bolsonaro protesters and Trump supporters were all part of a single global battle against so-called ‘corruption'” – Daily Beast.