I address the Brazilian people and the international community as the true president of Brazil. First of all, I would like to thank President Milei for his courage, sense of justice and legality, President Trump and the wonderful American people for welcoming me. This is a land of freedoms and brothers who share the same values as the good people of my country. President Trump is a great defender of freedom of expression. On Sunday night, I watched in horror as electoral fraud unfolded before my eyes. The illegitimate and illegal actions of Lula's former lawyer allowed a mathematical impossibility to materialize, resulting in Lula gaining over 10 million votes from the first to the second round. A decision by the Supreme Federal Court (STF), overriding the authority of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), extended the voting period at the last minute, and the order only arrived after the legal closing time, when the polls had already closed. Voters were subjected to different rules. So far, the TSE has only defended the extension of voting hours, and there is not a single credible response. And the irregularities are not the only problem. Throughout the entire campaign, there was abuse of political and economic power and the misuse of public resources in favor of reelection. These are serious acts, expressly prohibited by law, that justify the annulment of the Lula-Alckmin ticket.
The regime's response to my questioning came swiftly. As if by a pre-ordained plan, seven minutes after this repugnant electoral fraud, the judge, implicated in a huge corruption scandal, directly cited in the inquiry he used to try to seize my passports, and who would very likely be in prison if they hadn't prevented my inauguration, set in motion the regime's political persecution machine. Being inherently ineligible and completely suspect to initiate any judicial proceedings against me, his mere participation in procedural acts demonstrates the extent of the arbitrariness and illegality underway. It was not my intention to leave my homeland, but I know exactly where this will lead. This is the classic playbook for any coup d'état. The political persecution that began with my father, former President Jair Bolsonaro, and spread to thousands of other ordinary patriotic Brazilians and even American citizens, has a single objective: to silence anyone who disagrees with the state of exception established in Brazil, through a Supreme Court controlled by the criminal Workers' Party organization. cont...