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- Jair Bolsonaro's son gave Mike Lindell a MAGA hat he said was signed by Donald Trump.
- Eduardo Bolsonaro claimed Trump had signed it the day before he went to the MyPillow CEO's event.
- The hat was signed "to Mike, a great patron," Bolsonaro said.
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The son of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro gave MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell a Make Great America hat signed by former President Donald Trump.
Eduardo Bolsonaro, who is also a politician, attended part of the 72-hour "cyber symposium" held in Sioux Falls, South Dakota by Lindell, who has been a leading promoter of voter-fraud conspiracy theories.
After stepping onto the stage the early hours of Tuesday, Bolsonaro gave Lindell a red MAGA hat which he said Trump had given him when they met on Monday.
The hat was signed "to Mike, a great patron," Bolsonaro claimed. Lindell said: "Thank you Mr President, our real president."
Lindell, who said in April that he still spoke to Trump about once a month, is a leading promoter of baseless voter-fraud conspiracy theories that posit that China helped Joe Biden "steal" the presidential election from Trump.
Lindell has claimed that he has 37 terabytes of information related to voter fraud, which he planned to reveal at the cyber symposium, which is being live-streamed on his website, Frank.
Lindell said that he'd give $5 million to anyone who can disprove the data, provided they attend the event in person.
Similar to Trump in the US, Jair Bolsonaro has suggested that Brazil's electronic voting machines were used to rig the country's elections.
Brazil's electoral authority has announced that it's investigating Bolsonaro, who has been president since 2019, over the debunked claims.
During his speech on Tuesday, Eduardo Bolsonaro criticized the media for depicting Brazil as "racist", "against women," and "dictators."
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"The left in Brazil copy the left in [the] US," Bolsonaro said. He called his father "the most hated president ever in Brazil."
After Bolsonaro's speech, former Trump advisor Steve Bannon said that Brazil's 2022 election was the "second most important election in the world."
"Bolsonaro will win unless it's stolen by - guess what - the machines," Bannon added.
He called Bolsonaro's opponent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, "a criminal" and "the most dangerous leftist in the world."
Lula, a founding member of the Workers' Party who was Brazil's president between 2003 and 2010, was convicted in July 2017 on charges of money laundering and corruption.
He was was sentenced to 12 years in prison in April 2018 but was freed in November 2019 when the Supreme Court ruled his imprisonment was unlawful.
Lula has denied wrongdoing and claimed the prosecution was politically motivated.
Last week, an opinion poll put him 13 points ahead of Bolsonaro.
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