“You teacher is a leftist? Tell her to read the book The Suffocated Truth.”

— Jair Bolsonaro

Just read it. There are facts, not the blah blah blah of the left.
Telling students to read a book by Colonel Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra, dictatorship-era torturer, in Brasília, on 30 September 2019. Bolsonaro tells students to read book by dictatorship-era torturer https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/30/bolsonaro-tells-students-to-read-book-by-dictatorship-era-torturer. The Guardian (30 September 2019).

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