Jair Bolsonaro could be “the Trump of Brazil” | CBC News

Conservative Brazilian lawmaker Jair Bolsonaro flashes two thumbs up as he poses for a photo with cadets during a ceremony marking Army Day, in Brasilia, Brazil, April 19, 2018. (Eraldo Peres/The Associated Press)

Jair Messias Bolsonaro is a Brazilian politician and retired military officer, he is also a man who outrages progressive Brazilians with his insults directed against women, gays, blacks and indigenous people, but whose crude and violent rhetoric has touched the tone with an angry section of the electorate.

Due to all that Bolsonaro has said, now many label him as the "Trump of Brazil" and that there is no doubt that he has caused a stir with everything he has expressed.

For his part, Bolsonaro has vowed to scrap environmental laws, open the Amazon to ranchers and miners and confiscate the lands of the indigenous people of Brazil.

James Alexander Michie | CNN: Donald Trump is pretty sure he's nailing this whole 'President' thing

(CNN) - On Wednesday night, speaking to a packed house in North Dakota, President Donald Trump seemed to suggest that this whole being President thing wasn't so tough.

"The Heritage Foundation came out with a report, and this was as of two months ago, we've already implemented 64% of our top agenda items," Trump told the cheering crowd. "And that's at a much faster pace than even Ronald Reagan. That's pretty good, right?"

That bravado was apparent, too, in Trump's barrage of early morning tweets on Thursday. Breaking with his past refusal to impugn special counsel Robert Mueller personally, Trump tweeted, "When is Bob Mueller going to list his Conflicts of Interest? Why has it taken so long? Will they be listed at the top of his $22,000,000 Report...And what about the 13 Angry Democrats, will they list their conflicts with Crooked H? How many people will be sent to jail and persecuted on old and/or totally unrelated charges (there was no collusion and there was no obstruction of the no collusion)...And what is going on in the FBI & DOJ with Crooked Hillary, the DNC and all of the lies? A disgraceful situation!"

The reason for all that confidence? Donald Trump is, to borrow a favorite Trump word, winning -- at least as he sees it.

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