Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro told an actress to 'get out of here' after she criticized his response to the coronavirus pandemic in a gathering outside his official residence on Wednesday morning.
FILE PHOTO: Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro looks on before a national flag hoisting ceremony in front of Alvorada Palace, amid the coronavirus disease outbreak in Brasilia, Brazil June 9, 2020. REUTERS/Adriano Machado
Cris Bernart told Bolsonaro that Brazil’s estimated 38,000 deaths from COVID-19 were not just statistics but families across the country who were suffering. “Get out of here, you have already been heard,” the president said in the video, which has been widely shared on social media. “Get out of here.”
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