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Jair Bolsonaro: The President Who Promised to Kill 30,000 People

Behind the Bastards

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I've Been Able to Find Very Little About Jayers Early Life

Jair Bolsonaro was handed to him by his political opponents. His father was an unlicensed dentist and also the only dentist in the towns where they lived, which was not uncommon in Brazil at that point in history. Jair's parents originally wanted to name him messiest, which means Messiah, but according to America's quarterly quote, a neighbor suggested Jair after a midfielder on the Brazilian national soccer team.

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