This is Rich

It appears that former president Jair Bolsonaro forged vaccination documentation in order to flee to the United States after his election loss.

Gee, who could have predicted that?

Brazilian police have recommended that former president Jair Bolsonaro be charged with fraud and criminal association, authorities said Tuesday morning, alleging that he conspired with others to fabricate a vaccination card shortly before he entered the United States in late 2022.

Days before Bolsonaro left the presidential palace in 2022, defeated by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in a historically divisive election, police say, false information was entered into a health ministry ledger to issue fake vaccine cards for Bolsonaro and his daughter, Laura.

An IP address from the presidential palace was used to print the cards, which asserted that Bolsonaro, who spent years inveighing against the coronavirus vaccine and swore off ever receiving one, had been vaccinated against covid-19.

Days later, Bolsonaro decamped for Florida. At the time, the United States was denying entry to unvaccinated foreigners.

It's a crime, of course, but it's also a depravity, placing other people at risk for his own political convenience.

I really hope that this motherf%$#er goes away for a long time.