The far-right presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro said Thursday his campaign had no ties to former White House strategist Steve Bannon, contradicting claims by one of Bolsonaro’s sons.
Bolsonaro, who won the first round of Brazil’s presidential election Sunday and is the front-runner in polls for the 28 October runoff, was asked about connections to Bannon during an event in Rio de Janeiro.
Bolsonaro said that if his son Eduardo Bolsonaro had met with Bannon, “he didn’t tell me about it”.
“We don’t have the resources to pay for the campaign … even if [a marketing strategist] approached us,” Bolsonaro said.
He described the reports of connections to Bannon as “typical fake news”.
