Candice Morais

THE LAST 6 DAYS OF BRAZIL'S ELECTION FIGHT CHANGED EVERYTHING. HERE IS THE TIMELINE. This is not what you're being told. Days ago, Trump told reporters Brazil's election was "very strange". He said: he "won't get involved" in Flávio Bolsonaro's claim to the presidency. THAT SAME WEEK: Hundreds of thousands of Brazilians swarmed Trump's Instagram comment sections, BEGGING for his help. ONE post received nearly 900,000 comments. Normally quiet posts pulled tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of comments. Some asked for a US intervention. Others asked him to do to Lula what he did to Maduro. A study reported by Folha: 34.1% of the comments it checked asked him to "save" or "help" Brazil. The pleas came after Flávio lost the runoff to Lula, 48.2% to 51.8%, by more than 4.4 million votes. He refused to accept it and said he would try to annul the election. Brazil's Supreme Court ordered him to hand over his passports in a money laundering probe. He fled ANYWAY — Argentina, then Ecuador, then Miami, with his family. The US State Department said it will issue them visas. After landing, he called himself the "true president of Brazil". Then he changed it to "leader". Here's what nobody is telling you: Flávio lost at the ballot box and left the country. His supporters took the fight to Trump's Instagram, where one post hit nearly 900,000 comments. That's not a comment section. That's a petition to the White House. Follow me for more.