Bolsonaro backtracks on 'president' claim after Brazil election defeat

Brazil's defeated presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro has retracted his claim to be the "true" and "elected president," replacing the terms with "leader" in a revised statement on platform X. Bolsonaro maintains that Sunday's victory by incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva involved "abhorrent electoral fraud." He faces potential legal issues, as his father, former President Jair Bolsonaro, was sentenced to a long prison term for an attempted coup. Despite a court ban amid money laundering investigations, Bolsonaro secretly traveled to Miami, failing to surrender his passports as ordered. He plans to lead the opposition from abroad, comparing himself to Charles de Gaulle, who led Free France from London during World War II.