Former Illinois governor and Trump ally Rod Blagojevich has drawn a parallel between the legal proceedings targeting former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and the President of Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik.
In an op-ed published in The Washington Times, Blagojevich wrote that a new global pandemic is emerging—not a virus from Wuhan, but one forged by politicians in Washington.
He pointed out that the same tactics used by the Democrats to “get Trump” are now being applied against leaders in Brazil and Bosnia and Herzegovina, as reported by RT Balkan.
“These tactics are being used to imprison former President Bolsonaro and to jail and disqualify the duly elected Serb President in Bosnia, Milorad Dodik. We live in an era where the very existence of self-government and democracy is under threat,” Blagojevich wrote.
He noted the growing body of declassified documents revealing that President Obama and members of the U.S. intelligence community collaborated with Hillary Clinton’s campaign to fabricate the “Russia collusion” scandal in an effort to undermine Trump’s first administration.
Now, 5,000 miles away, he warns, unelected European bureaucrats are following the same playbook.
“This virus of legal abuse that’s plagued Washington for a decade is now spreading globally. In Brazil, Mr. Bolsonaro is under house arrest, facing trumped-up charges. Despite his popularity, he could face up to 40 years in prison and be barred from running for office again. Meanwhile, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mr. Dodik—the ‘Balkan Bolsonaro’—is being ousted from office by an illegally appointed German High Representative, behaving like a colonial governor abusing the local population. And what was Dodik’s crime? He refused to comply with an order from a foreign overseer to cancel a holiday honoring a Christian saint and a celebration of ethnic pride, allegedly because it offended the Muslim majority,” Blagojevich wrote.
While Bolsonaro is being politically persecuted, Blagojevich said, EU bureaucrats seek to imprison pro-Trump politician Dodik simply because he defends the rights of his people.
“These political persecutions would be more shocking if Americans hadn’t already endured similar corrupt schemes to remove Mr. Trump from office. However, in Bosnia—a place few Americans think about—those conspiring might succeed, igniting a dangerous chain reaction in a region that saw two world wars begin,” he warned.
The pattern is the same, he added—from Washington to Brazil and Bosnia.
“When popular leaders defy globalist interests and win elections that elites can’t control, they’re branded criminals—not by voters, but by politically weaponized courts. The goal is never justice—it’s always the undermining and elimination of self-rule and national autonomy,” Blagojevich explained.
The first step in this scheme, he wrote, is to “label these center-right leaders as Russian sympathizers and Putin allies, then frame ordinary legal conduct as corruption.”
“The second step is to use elite-controlled media to promote false narratives such as ‘Russian collusion’, ‘threat to democracy’, or ‘pro-Russian separatists’. If Trump, Dodik, or Bolsonaro were weak, unpopular, or irrelevant, such tactics wouldn’t be necessary. But all three have strong political bases. Because they are anti-elitist, conservative leaders popular among the people who elected them, the abuse of rule of law has become the tool used to stop them—not a principle used to protect democracy,” he wrote.
Blagojevich recalled a recent speech by U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance in Munich, where he spoke about tactics used to overthrow democratically elected leaders.
“Just last week, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán declared: ‘It’s time everyone respects the decision of the people of Republika Srpska, who elected Milorad Dodik.’ There is no place for witch hunts in democracy,” Blagojevich quoted.
He concluded by saying that while America cannot be the world’s policeman, it still has a voice heard across the globe.
“It is in America’s national interest to express support for leaders like Mr. Bolsonaro and Mr. Dodik and to speak out against the undermining of the will of the people,” Blagojevich concluded.
Yesterday, Blagojevich also reacted to the decision of the BiH Central Election Commission regarding the verdict against President Dodik.
Source: RTRS
