Brazilian President, Jair Bolsonaro, did not take kindly to a question posed by a reporter regarding his wife's involvement in an alleged corruption, with the president threatening to punch the reporter in the mouth.
Bolsonaro had said, “I so want to pound your mouth with punches."
The question came after reporters met with the president after his visit to the Metropolitan Cathedral in Brasilia.
Bolsonaro ignored further questions, storming off without making any comments.
The reporter, from the newspaper O Globo, had asked Bolsonaro about the reports in Crusoe magazine regarding the connection of the country's First Lady, Michelle Bolsonaro, to a retired police officer and friend of the president, Fabricio Queiroz.
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Queiroz who served as an adviser to Bolsonaro's son, Flavio Bolsonaro, is being investigated alongside Flavio for defrauding the government employees when Flavio was a regional lawmaker in Rio de Janeiro before his father Jair attained presidency in 2019.
The magazine alleged that Queiroz had deposited some of the money in the bank account of the First Lady between 2011 and 2016, a claim that has received no response from the First Lady.
Responding to Bolsonaro's threat, O Globo, in a statement said that it denounced the president's “aggression … towards a journalist from our newspaper that was carrying out his job in a professional manner.”
Adding that such action “shows that Jair Bolsonaro does not acknowledge the duty of a public servant … to be accountable to the public.”
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