Aida Franco de Lima – OPINION
I don't know the ratings, but since last Monday, June 9, from dawn to dusk, the testimonies of the main people involved in the attempted coup d'état following the last presidential elections have been broadcast live. And what we have is a humorless farce.
The statements relate to an attempt to coup, on January 08, 2023, but the impression is that it was all just a bar conversation. Just as it was said. In other words, disinterested conversations.
The witnesses, all of them, until the end of former President Jair Messias Bolsonaro's term, held the highest positions and the highest ranks. Power, money, fame, status. Everything they had until then seems to fall apart, and there, testifying, confronted with the truth, they appear cornered, emotional, defenseless.
What we see are scripts written by defense attorneys with the sole purpose of freeing their clients or reducing their sentences as much as possible.
Memory lapses are recurrent. When they are answers that interest them, they remember the smallest details. However, when it is something that could complicate their fate, they forget, they don't remember. They claim anxiety, pressure, emotion...
Colonel Mauro Cid, Bolsonaro's former aide-de-camp, doesn't remember many things, but he did remember details such as when he handed over a box of wine stuffed with money to Major Rafael de Oliveira. Cid was responding to a request from Walter Souza Braga Netto, Bolsonaro's running mate in 2022. Braga Neto was the one who passed the money to Cid, with the purpose of, among other things, killing the then president of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), Alexandre de Moraes.
In his testimony on Tuesday morning, the 10th, former Justice Minister Anderson Torres said that the document that was in his house, the so-called draft of the coup, ended up there by chance. Like when we walk down the street and someone hands us an advertising pamphlet and, so as not to dirty the street, puts it in the car or in the pocket. He had time to read the document and even found serious Portuguese errors. But he did not comment on the seriousness of the proposal. A blow to democracy.
Former Justice Minister Anderson Torres had taken over security for the Federal District and a week later he decided to travel with his family to fulfill his children's dream of visiting Disney. Brasília was bustling, there were camps in front of Army headquarters all over Brazil, and the person responsible for taking care of security in the federal capital was traveling.
Torres said he did, indeed, do his homework. He left everything organized, in case it was needed, since there was a buzz of a act on January 8, 2023.
About the cell phone, which he didn't bring from abroad, he lost. He was so nervous when he heard about the problems in Brazil that he lost the device. After all, who doesn't lose a cell phone?
And the dance continues — or, rather, the circus. And the clowns? Guess where they are!
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