Except it is not. I am well aware of The Intercept’s articles, as I am a Brazilian myself, paying close attention to the activities by Sergio Moro and Jair Bolsonaro for quite some time. Although I agree with most of your text, I have to point out what I’ve already said: the timeline is inaccurate. It is clear as daylight that Sergio Moro was acting nothing but in a political way since day one, but it was not in order to help Bolsonaro. Bolsonaro came later, as an opportunity, and Sergio Moro took it. If Alckmin, the PSDB candidate, had won this election, Moro probably would join forces with him too.

That’s what the story you posted, a great one by Greenwald and his reporters, show. By the time Lula was convicted (2017, I reinforce), no one was talking about Bolsonaro but some lunatics. Moro himself pointed FHC (ex-president and most prominent figure in PSDB) as an “ally”, but had no words for Bolsonaro.

As I said, I do agree with most of your text, but the narrative “Moro pursued Lula so Bolsonaro could become president” is simply not right. Moro pursued Lula so the former president couldn’t run again for the office, Bolsonaro came in as a plus, after the conviction. That is the correlation.