“I couldn’t show images of saying that poor poor guy steals a cell phone to take a beer.” “I couldn’t show Lula images with CPX hat on my head. Because here. They are only elected with the support of trafficking.”
In less than a minute, the former president () repeated two misinformation content that viralized in the 2022 election campaign on Wednesday (26) ,.
The first lie, the phrase citing cell phone and beer theft, began to circulate in 2021. But in fact, the viral post wore edited sections of one of Lula (PT), joining two phrases he had said in different contexts with a university radio in Pernambuco in 2017.
Asked about causes of violence, Lula replied, “It’s something that is closely linked. That is, the citizen had access to a material good, a little house, a job, and suddenly the guy loses everything. So, he becomes a cell phone stealing industry. So that he steals cellular? To win a money. I think this violence that is caused by hopelessness.”
At another point in the interview, he uses the example of football by commenting on hatred in society: “We need to disregard society to realize that Santa Cruz and Sport fans are not enemies. They are opponents during the game, then go to the bar to have beer together. And they still leave the nautical staff beating the side.”
The other rumor mentioned on Wednesday by Bolsonaro is about the “CPX hat”, a false associated acronym with drug trafficking. , Federal Representative Mário Frias (PL) was one of those who, in 2022, shared a post saying that “CPX” – Lula’s cap used at an event in, no, no – Cupinxa, a crime partner “and” abbreviation used by the faction “. The correct word, “Cupincha”, with “CH”, is used to refer to a partner and, unlike what has viralized, CPX is the abbreviation of the word “complex”, name given to a slum sets.
At the time, community leader and one of the organizers of the petista visit to Morro do Alemão, published on a social network that the association made by Bolsonarists was “criminal”.
