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Jair Bolsonaro's son gave Mike Lindell a MAGA hat signed by Trump at event talking about voter fraud [1]
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Date: 2025-07
Mike Lindell is a leading promoter of voter-fraud conspiracy theories. MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images
Mike Lindell is a leading promoter of voter-fraud conspiracy theories. MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images
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The son of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday gave MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell a "Make America Great Again" hat he said was signed by former President Donald Trump.
Eduardo Bolsonaro, who's also a politician, attended part of Lindell's 72-hour "cyber symposium" in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
After stepping onto the stage, Bolsonaro gave Lindell a red hat that he said Trump had given him when they met on Monday.
The hat was signed "to Mike, a great patriot," Lindell said, adding, "Thank you, Mr. President, our real president."
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Lindell, who said in April that he spoke to Trump about once a month, is a leading promoter of baseless voter-fraud conspiracy theories.
Lindell has claimed that he has 37 terabytes of information related to voter fraud to reveal at the cyber symposium, which is being livestreamed on his website, Frank.
Lindell said he'd give $5 million to anyone who could disprove the data, provided they attend the event in person.
Similar to Trump in the US, Jair Bolsonaro has suggested that Brazil's voting machines were used to rig the country's elections.
Brazil's election authority has announced an investigation into Bolsonaro, who has been the president since 2019, over the debunked claims.
During his speech on Tuesday, Eduardo Bolsonaro accused the media of depicting Brazil as "racist" and "against women" and "dictators."
Eduardo Bolsonaro gave a speech alleging voter fraud in Brazil. Grace Dean/Insider
"The left in Brazil copy the left in US," Bolsonaro said. He called his father "the most hated president ever in Brazil."
After Bolsonaro's speech, Steve Bannon, a former Trump advisor, said Brazil's 2022 election was the "second-most-important election in the world."
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"Bolsonaro will win unless it's stolen by, guess what, the machines," Bannon added.
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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 from 2003 to 2010, was convicted in July 2017 of money laundering and corruption.
He was sentenced to 12 years in prison in April 2018 but was freed in November 2019 when the Supreme Court ruled that 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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