Tucker Carlson says “if you care about democracy” you should question the results of Brazil’s election
Carlson: “Millions of Brazilians – millions – don’t believe that’s what actually happened”
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Citation From the November 2, 2022, edition of Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight
TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): According to official tallies, a convicted criminal and avowed socialist called Lula da Silva beat the incumbent president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, by a narrow margin this weekend. And yet millions of Brazilians -- millions -- don't believe that's what actually happened. Bolsonaro himself has not conceded. There are protests all over Brazil right now. You're seeing some on your screen right now. There are questions about whether all the ballots had been counted. Why so many were thrown out. Millions. And whether election laws were violated in the process. So we can't render judgment on those questions, but if you care about democracy, if you think the process is essential, then you would look into those allegations. Anything less is not a democracy.
And yet what's interesting and maybe a point of concern for the rest of us here in the U.S., is that you are no longer allowed to ask questions about this election in Brazil. And you're not allowed, because the Biden administration doesn't want you to. That's true. YouTube, which has functioned for the last two years as an arm of the Biden administration, has announced it is censoring any posts in Brazil that question the election results. Brazil's courts have also rejected any inquiry into the election. In fact, a Supreme Court judge in Brazil has also ordered social media companies to remove any social media posts that questions the outcome. Overwhelming censorship in a, quote, "democracy" preventing people from asking questions about how the, quote, "democracy" functions.