Former U.S. president headlines ousted autocrat double-header by following Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro at annual far-right convention.

The former presidents of Brazil and the United States took the stage CPAC on Saturday where both fascist politicians continued to sow doubt about their respective electoral defeats as they received standing ovations from the annual convention’s far-right attendees.

Brazil’s disgraced former leader Jair Bolsonaro—whose supporters stormed government offices in January after his successor, leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, was sworn into office—was brought onto the stage this year’s “diminished” CPAC gathering to blaring rock music and loud cheers from the crowd.

Addressing the American audience, Bolsonaro indicated once more his doubts that he lost the Brazilian election fairly, saying, “I had way more support in 2022 than I had in 2018, and I don’t understand why the numbers said the opposite.”

“I thank God for the […]