By virtually every poll for the 2022 election, Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro is losing by double-digits to former president Lula da Silva. What's more, the direction of the polling is going against Bolsonaro as well.
In the spirit of desperate times require desperate measures, Bolsonaro is pulling a Trumpian January 6.

Imagine that you are president of a country gripped by a pandemic, and a reporter asks you to comment about the record number of deaths that day. Of all the possible responses you could think of, would "So what?" be your first choice?

Just over a year ago Bolsonaro had this to say.