Steve Bannon, expelled by Trump for leaking information and self-promotion, will be the special guest of Jair Bolsonaro on the eve of the Brazilian president’s meeting with President Trump at the White House
By Julio
Severo
Steve Bannon, the former White House
adviser who was expelled by President Donald Trump for leaking confidential
information and self-promotion, will be the special guest of Jair Bolsonaro for
an official dinner on Monday, the eve of the Brazilian President’s meeting with
Trump at the White House.
Bolsonaro will be in Washington next week
where he will meet with Trump in the Oval Office. Their discussions will
include trade, transnational crime and restoring democracy in Venezuela.
Bolsonaro has made no secret of his desire
to establish close ties with the United States. White House National Security
Advisor John Bolton and other Trump officials have raised the possibility of a
free trade agreement between the two nations.
Steve Bannon has nothing to do with
me or my Presidency. When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his
mind…
Steve had very little to do with our
historic victory… Steve doesn’t represent my base—he’s only in it for himself.
Steve pretends to be at war with the
media, which he calls the opposition party, yet he spent his time at the White
House leaking false information to the media to make himself seem far more
important than he was. It is the only thing he does well. Steve was rarely in a
one-on-one meeting with me and only pretends to have had influence to fool a
few people with no access and no clue, whom he helped write phony books.
Bannon as the special guest of Bolsonaro
in the Brazilian embassy in Washington prompted the headline of Veja, the
Brazilian counterpart of Time magazine, “Bolsonaro’s dinner with Bannon in U.S.
is a slap in the face of the Trump administration,” in a report that said, “The
inclusion of Bannon among dinner guests at the Brazilian embassy is a breach of
protocol with the host country.”
Bolsonaro
should put himself in Trump’s shoes. Would he find respectful if Trump, in an
official trip to Brazil to meet him, he first met a man fired by Bolsonaro for leaking
confidential information and self-promotion?
According to Veja, the exclusive event of
Bolsonaro for Bannon will happen under the influence of Brazilian astrologer
Olavo de Carvalho, who has been a self-exiled immigrant in the U.S. for 15
years, and Eduardo Bolsonaro.
Bannon
and Carvalho had two meetings last January. Both share the same background:
They were inspired by René Guénon, an Islamic occultist who founded the
Traditionalist School to promote esoteric conservatism and fight Marxism.
Bannon, Carvalho and Guénon came from the same Catholic background.
After being fired by Trump, Bannon created
a movement to influence right-wingers in Europe and Latin America. He had his first
public meeting with Eduardo Bolsonaro August 2018. When asked by the
international press, Jair Bolsonaro denied any ties with Bannon.
Late November, both met again: Eduardo
Bolsonaro attended Bannon’s birthday party.
And last January, Bannon chose Eduardo as
the head of his movement in Brazil and Latin America. “The Movement is honored
to welcome Eduardo Bolsonaro as a distinguished partner, and Brazil, a key ally
in South America,” Bannon said.
As part of his effort to expand his
movement and laying a strategic groundwork for Bolsonaro’s U.S. visit, Bannon
is propelling up Carvalho by officially inviting people to a hotel in
Washington DC, on March 16, for the screening of Carvalho’s movie, which has
several New Age characteristics. His
movie was officially launched in the United States in 2017, but there was no
American public willing to watch it.
Bolsonaro’s meeting with Bannon is not
only uncomfortable for Trump, who had troubles and conflicts with Bannon. It is
also uncomfortable for Brazilian evangelicals, who had massive influence on
Bolsonaro’s victory, but now they have just to observe Bolsonaro giving
opportunities and space for Carvalho and his “nominations” — at the expense of
evangelicals. Now will they have to observe also Bannon getting also space for
such privileges — again, at the expense of evangelicals?
Less space for evangelicals means only one
thing: More space for the influence of Carvalho and Bannon.
It remains to be seen what Trump and
evangelical leaders will think about Carvalho and Bannon, two adherents of a Islamic
occultist, getting exclusivity from Bolsonaro.
With information from McClatchyDC, PR Newswire and
Veja.
Portuguese version of this article: Steve
Bannon, expulso por Trump por vazamento de informações e autopromoção, será o
convidado especial de Jair Bolsonaro na véspera da reunião do presidente
brasileiro com o Presidente Trump na Casa Branca
Source:
Last Days Watchman
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