On January 8, supporters of Jair Bolsonaro stormed Brazil’s Congress, Supreme Court, and presidential offices under the false belief that Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva had stolen the election.1 The rioters, who destroyed a clock given to King João VI, the absolute monarch who fled Napoleon’s armies and established the Portuguese court in Brazil, were arrested.
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On January 8, supporters of Jair Bolsonaro stormed Brazil’s Congress, Supreme Court, and presidential offices under the false belief that Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva had stolen the election.1 The rioters, who destroyed a clock given to King João VI, the absolute monarch who fled Napoleon’s armies and established the Portuguese court in Brazil, were arrested.