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Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro engages in power struggle with country’s Supreme Court

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro today opposed Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes decision to include him in an investigation into attacks on democracy on the Internet, asking if his official residence would be searched.

"Who are they going to send? The federal police or the armed forces?" a smiling Bolsonaro belligerently asked a group of his supporters outside the Alvorada Palace, the presidential residence in Brasilia.

"What a shame," he said of his inclusion in a 2019 Supreme Court proceeding to investigate repeated attacks on democratic institutions via social media, mostly attributed to activists of the . . .

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