Bolsonaro insults Folha Reporter with sexual insinuation
Statement referenced the testimony of a former employee of a mass WhatsApp messaging agency
Feb.18.2020 8:14PM
Gustavo Uribe
BRASÍLIA
On Tuesday (18), President Jair Bolsonaro insulted Folha journalist Patrícia Campos Mello with sexual innuendo. "She [reporter] wanted a scoop. She wanted to scoop the scoop at any price against me [laughs from him and the rest]," said the president in an interview before a group of supporters outside of Palácio da Alvorada.
The president's statement was a reference to the testimony of a former employee of a mass messaging agency via WhatsApp, given last week to the Fake News CPMI in Congress.
Hans River do Rio Nascimento, testified to the commission. He worked for Yacows, a company specializing in digital marketing, during the 2018 election campaign.
In December of that year, Folha published a news story based on documents from the Labor Court and interviews with Hans. The reporting showed how a network of companies, including Yacows, resorted to the fraudulent use of elderly people's names and CPFs to register cell phone chips and blast messages to benefit politicians.
More:
https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/brazil/2020/02/bolsonaro-insults-folha-reporter-with-sexual-insinuation.shtml
Smooth move, dirtbag.
