Brazil's Bolsonaro tells actress to 'get out' after she criticizes pandemic response
JUNE 10, 2020 / 12:11 PM / UPDATED 13 HOURS AGO
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro told an actress to “get out of here” after she criticized his response to the coronavirus pandemic in a gathering outside his official residence on Wednesday morning.
Cris Bernart told Bolsonaro that Brazil’s estimated 38,000 deaths from COVID-19 were not just statistics but families across the country who were suffering.
Bolsonaro, who has dismissed the virus as just a “little flu” and ordered state governors to loosen lockdown restrictions, told Bernart to leave, a live YouTube broadcast by a Bolsonaro supporter that was later taken down showed.
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“You can see, you have this character speaking rubbish here,” Bolsonaro said, repeating his criticism of state governors for shutting down businesses and causing economic hardship.
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