President did this to criticize recommendation to stay at home until there was difficulty breathing; in the “JN”, he denied that he had done the imitation
The president Jair Bolsonaro (PL) denied, during a hearing held by the National Journalthe main television news program TV Globo, having imitated a breathless person when talking about covid victims. The interview was conducted by presenters William Bonner and Renata Vasconcellos, on Monday (22.Aug.2022).
On Saturday, Renata Vasconcellos says Bolsonaro imitated patients with shortness of breath in “Most Dramatic Moments” of the pandemic and that “many saw this as a sign of a lack of compassion”. The Chief Executive then asks them to show him “imitating shortness of breath”. The 2 argue, and the president claims that the journalist corrected herself and withdrew her speech – read the full dialogue below.
However, Bolsonaro twice imitated a breathless person, both in 2021, during the live of May 18 and in the live of 6 May. In both cases he criticized the former Minister of Health Henrique Mandetta and the recommendation, at the time, to go to the hospital only in cases of shortness of breath.
Watch the excerpt from the live on 18.mar.2021 (3min1s):
Watch the excerpt from the live on 6.May.2021 (1min22s):
BOLSONARO DEFENDS HIMSELF
Hours after granting the interview to the National JournalBolsonaro used his profile on Twitter on Monday night to talk about the shortness of breath simulation. He wrote that at the time, in 2021, he was “denouncing the ‘Mandetta Protocol’, which only recommended going to the hospital after feeling short of breath”. The president also stated that he has always defended “those people”. Read the Chief Executive’s message below:
Here’s the dialog in JN About imitation of shortness of breath:
- Renata Vasconcellos: “Now candidate, regarding your behavior with the phrases I mentioned, imitating patients with shortness of breath, many saw this as a sign of lack of compassion”;
- Jair Bolsonaro: “I wanted you to put me in the air imitating the shortness of breath”;
- Renata Vasconcellos: “But the lack of compassion…”;
- Jair Bolsonaro: “Ah well, so you started to change, already started to change. It’s all right”.
After a few minutes, the TV news presenter again cites Bolsonaro’s imitation. After a brief discussion, Bonner intervenes:
- Renata Vasconcellos: “Do you not regret your behavior, the phrases you made imitating people with shortness of breath, in solidarity with the families who suffered?”;
- Jair Bolsonaro: “You just said that I didn’t mimic the shortness of breath and you went back to the shortness of breath again. You went back to talking about shortness of breath again”;
- Renata Vasconcellos: “Candidate, 700,000 dead. My question is very specific: do you regret that?”;
- Jair Bolsonaro: “I regret the deaths. There is no one who has not lost a relative, a friend. Sorry for the deaths. Now, covid could not be treated the way it started to be treated. And when you talk about early treatment, remember that in Mandetta’s protocol there was early treatment there, but only in serious cases, where I didn’t agree with him. At first, Mandetta’s protocol was: go home. When you feel short of breath, look for a hospital. I said: “Looking for what if there is no medicine?’ And there was no vaccine at that time either.”;
- William Bonner: “Shall we talk about the economy? I just wanted to watch. Renata did not withdraw the observation about the fact that you had imitated people with shortness of breath”;
- Jair Bolsonaro: “She Withdrew”;
- William Bonner: “No, no, no. She said that you imitated people with shortness of breath and that solidarity was also lacking. It was both.”.
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