Leandro Ruschel 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇮🇹🇩🇪

Leandro Ruschel stated that Edson Fachin was advocating for a reform of the Judiciary without altering guarantees, but he questioned which guarantees he was referring to. According to Ruschel, in recent years, the Federal Supreme Court had restricted constitutional rights such as free expression, association, and manifestation, in addition to the right to defense, the natural judge, and due process. He said this had occurred especially with people who did not align with what he called the court's leftism. Ruschel also criticized the defense that the reform should be made "with the Judiciary." According to him, it is up to the Legislative to draft laws, while the Judiciary should apply them and assess their compatibility with the Constitution. He added that courts can propose laws regarding their own organization, but the decision falls to Congress, and they cannot present constitutional amendments. For Ruschel, the expression used by Fachin would be a euphemism for the usurpation of Congress's powers. #Judiciário #Reforma #GarantiasCivis (translated)

Leandro Ruschel stated that a reporter from Veja considered that the attention given to the recording published by the magazine would be diverting focus from more serious allegations based on messages found on Daniel Vorcaro's cell phone. According to Ruschel, the reporter said that messages from 2024 and 2025 would indicate a collusion with executives from the pension funds of Banco do Brasil, Caixa, Petrobras, and Correios to raise R$ 10 billion, of which R$ 1 billion would be destined to the PT as a bribe. The account also mentioned more than 450 messages with an operator linked to the office of Minister Alexandre Padilha. Ruschel said that, according to the report, Banco Master entered in May 2024 a government list that would allow it to receive investments from the funds, despite having low credit ratings and being under investigation for fraud. During the same period, the bank reportedly negotiated R$ 500 million in credit letters with Caixa; the operation retreated after O Globo reported, in July 2024, the removal of two managers who had issued a negative opinion. The report also claimed that Padilha had said, in a meeting at the Palácio do Planalto, that agreements made with Olavo Noleto would count as agreements with the minister himself, and that, after dinner at Vorcaro's house in October 2024, the banker received a message saying that Lula would meet him and had liked the conversation. According to Ruschel, the reporter stated that Lula received Vorcaro in December and that messages from lawyer Walfrido Warde suggested pressure on the Central Bank to save Master. He added that Vorcaro would have presented the account to the Attorney General's Office (PGR), which had refused to receive the material, and that there would be evidence involving PGR members who had contact with the defense. Ruschel said that the reporter argued that Vorcaro should be heard and warned of the risk of diverting workers' resources to save the bank. #Corrupção #Política #Justiça (translated)

Leandro Ruschel wrote that the left's narrative about the audio had changed: first, it claimed it was false; then, it said it had been recorded illegally. He attributed this second statement to journalist Mônica Bergamo from Folha, whom he characterized as a petista militant in the newsroom. https://t.co/sEWvr9EXgo #Política #Mídia #Brasil (translated)

Leandro Ruschel stated that there was a difference between a banker’s defense of not confirming information and denying it. He questioned why, if the information was false, as the Workers' Party members claimed, the lawyers had not declared that. Based on a report by Caio Junqueira, Ruschel also highlighted that the lawyers stated that the preliminary material from a collaboration had been made available to a restricted group of authorities subject to a legal duty of confidentiality. For him, this statement suggested that the material existed. #justiça #direito #corrupção (translated)

Leandro Ruschel stated that the annulment of convictions in the Lava Jato operation and what he referred to as the state of exception created by the regime to suppress the right would have also enriched those responsible for the repression and delayed the "cleaning of the country" by at least ten years. He said that people who, according to him, had been caught looting the country reappeared in Vorcaro's plea bargain and claimed they should be in prison, not negotiating bribes again. #LavaJato #Corrupção #Justiça (translated)

Leandro Ruschel shared the account of a reporter from Veja about alleged dealings of Banco Master with members of the PT and fund managers. According to the material cited by the journalist, Daniel Vorcaro's partner contacted Jaques Wagner, then leader of Lula's government in the Senate, to arrange a meeting with João Vaccari Neto, the party's former treasurer. After the meeting, the reporter stated, the bank would have organized fundraising with funds whose presidents had been appointed by Vaccari and by names from the PT and appointed or endorsed by Lula. The account indicated that, near the end of the first semester of 2024, Banco Master obtained authorization from the federal government to operate and raise funds from the funds. Vorcaro would have reached out to operators linked to members of the government, including Alexandre Padilha, then Minister of Institutional Relations, with the goal of raising R$ 10 billion from the funds. In exchange, he allegedly agreed to pay the PT 10% of the total raised, according to the reporter. According to the account, Vaccari demanded R$ 30 million in cash from Augusto Lima to finance a documentary about Lula that Oliver Stone was producing in the United States. Vorcaro reportedly said that the money was delivered through messengers and PT operators. The reporter also stated that Vorcaro mentioned payments to the Instituto Lula, coordinated with Paulo Okamotto, a friend of the president and manager of the institution. #Política #Corrupção #Lula (translated)

Leandro Ruschel stated that Rachadones should have his mandate revoked and accused him of committing mass slander and defamation, as, according to him, the left accuses the right of doing. Ruschel added that if Rachadones were from the right and had done 10% of what he has done in recent years, he would already be in prison. #Rachadinha #Justiça #Politics (translated)

Leandro Ruschel questioned whether the Attorney General's Office and the Federal Police had refused to investigate Vorcaro's allegations of supposed irregularities negotiated with members of the PT government. He stated that the directors of the two agencies had met over whiskey and cigars in London and labeled them as allies of the PT regime. Ruschel also referred to the aforementioned government in a derogatory manner. #corrupção #investigação #política (translated)

Leandro Ruschel wrote that Nikolas stated live on Lula News that he had not seen Janja get so upset or insult Lulinha when, according to him, Lulinha offended her with a pejorative term in a private conversation. Ruschel said he imagined that a writing activist would have been taken aback by the statement. https://t.co/fVVN2zDv3L #Janja #Lula #Política (translated)

Leandro Ruschel shared a link to a letter to Brazil about freedom and prosperity, which, according to him, advocated for the freedom to think, work, and undertake. He stated that the text presented the minimum that a country should guarantee to promote these objectives. #Liberdade #Prosperidade #Brasil (translated)

Leandro Ruschel stated that, while the right celebrated Sunday’s results, the regime continued to act. According to him, ministers had granted semi-open regime to Débora, who was still serving her sentence at home, archived one of the inquiries against Allan dos Santos and Oswaldo Eustáquio, and closed a complaint that he classified as false against Flávio’s vice. Ruschel said that the authorities had retreated from actions to interfere in the elections as they believed these actions strengthened the right, but now they would act in a less visible manner. As an example, he stated that Moraes had received on Tuesday, at the Supreme Court and outside the agenda, the director-general of the Federal Police and the intelligence chief. According to Ruschel, Andrei, mentioned in Vorcaro's messages, was among them. He also stated that the two had been removed by Mendonça and reinstated by Dino, and that they supervised the dossier used by Moraes against the colleague who was investigating him. The agenda of the meeting was said to have been a “routine meeting.” Ruschel argued that the Federal Police was subordinated to the Executive and that, if the president remained in the Planalto, the Congress elected on Sunday could be neutralized by the Supreme Court and the Federal Police, which, according to him, could become a political police. He compared the scenario to Venezuela and concluded that, after the voters' manifestation at the polls on Sunday, the regime would have responded behind closed doors on Tuesday. #politica #direita #Brasil (translated)

Leandro Ruschel stated that Lima, from UOL, interpreted the election results as a desire for revenge for the judgment on January 8, while other newsroom professionals spoke of vengeance against Moraes. Ruschel rejected this interpretation and said the goal was to seek justice, end what he called a state of exception, and annul convictions he considered unjust, as they were based, according to him, on systematic disrespect for fundamental rights. He added that society should make it clear that abuses of authority come at a high cost, to prevent them from happening again. He also stated that if Moraes were not held accountable, another authoritarian could arise and repeat what Ruschel assessed Moraes has done in recent years. Ruschel referred to Lima with a derogatory nickname. #Justiça #DireitosHumanos #AbusoDeAutoridade (translated)

Leandro Ruschel stated that Lula defeated Flávio in the electoral sections of penal establishments, with 72.9% of valid votes, against 23.1%. He described the result as almost three out of four votes for Lula and used a derogatory nickname to refer to him. Ruschel asked who someone would vote for if they were a criminal and characterized a political group as favorable to treating criminals as victims of society, approving benefits for them and reducing sentences. In contrast, he said another candidate promised to toughen the fight against crime. He concluded that, in his assessment, prisoners had no doubts about whom to support. #Lula #Eleições2023 #Política (translated)

Leandro Ruschel questioned why the criminal review would have to be judged by the Plenary, while, according to him, Moraes had denied that the judgment of the "coup," which he referred to as a "show trial," would be analyzed by the panel. https://t.co/IeaKUzfzB5 #Justiça #DireitosHumanos #Brasil (translated)

Leandro Ruschel imagined what it would be like for Brazil to transition from Hugo Motta, whom he described pejoratively as linked to a murky political environment, to Luiz Philippe de Orleans e Bragança, whom he attributed moral and intellectual stature, as president of the Chamber of Deputies. https://t.co/gG9NLVCAyE #Brasil #Política #CâmaraDosDeputados (translated)