The Brazilian judiciary is attempting to stop Flavio Bolsonaro from taking office through the courts.
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Louder with CrowderOct 5, 2026
The claim departs from the passage only slightly: the post was conditional and about 'if Flavio win', but the claim presents a present court effort to block him from taking office.
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… A system with where the people trust the government work is accountability. If you do bad things and nothing happens to you, then it's an incentive to keep doing even worse. So what's going to happen now is that if Flavio win, and if they let him take office, which is a different discussion because they're trying to stop this through the courts now, ah, if you win and if he takes office, they're just gonna say, "Well, let's negotiate," and the right always falls for that, right? It's like, even, even in the US., okay, there's a lot of people that I wanted to see in prison here in the US. …
Louder with Crowder · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Contradicts. Reuters reports the Supreme Court passport order was related to a separate case and not to the election, which undercuts the claim that courts were trying to stop Flavio from taking office.[1]
Contradicts. Brazil's Superior Electoral Court certified Lula's runoff win by 4.4 million votes, so Flavio was not positioned to take office and no election-related court action to block him appears in the sources.[2][3]
Context. The courts did act against Flavio after the runoff (passport seizure and travel ban over an investigation into money laundering and other offenses), which is the closest court activity in the sources but concerns a different matter.[1][4]
Sources
4 sources: 2 fact-checkers, 2 not rated
- 1Flavio Bolsonaro declares himself rightful president-elect of Brazilreuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: contradicts, context
- 2Lula mobilized millions to win Brazil's election, while Bolsonaro ...apnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: contradicts
- 3Ensconced in the US, Flávio Bolsonaro claims victory in ...courthousenews.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 4Scandal-Plagued Judge Under a $25M Corruption Probe Just ...latintimes.com · not rated · cited for: context
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