But I think we're in violation of both the spirit and the law of the Constitution by bombing a capital, blockading a country, and removing elected officials. And we certainly wouldn't tolerate it, nor would I if someone did it to us. We didn't remove an elected official. We removed someone who was not elected and was actually an indicted drug trafficker in the United States. and their. System, Our laws indicted under our laws. Look, Bolsonaro says that da Silva is not really the president of Brazil. Our president said Biden wasn't really the president. (1:24:12–1:24:17)
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Asserts that the removal involved an indicted drug trafficker, not an elected official.
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