"I would even like His Excellency, Minister Alexandre de Moraes—I know it's not part of the procedure—but why don't Your Excellency, since you're so certain I'm a coup plotter […] how about the two of us, in public, on live national television, debate this case? Since you're so sure I'm a criminal, let's do it. TV Globo, same thing, two or three hours live for you to accuse me of everything—jewels, vaccines, whales, everything. I just want half an hour, of course, to defend myself.

I had an invasive procedure this morning, my intestines aren’t working. Unfortunately, I’m going to the imaging room now, they’ll apply contrast, and I could have signed later without issue. But since you insisted… Have you ever served someone in an ICU room in your life? You're not to blame for anything, please forgive me if I seem agitated […] He [Moraes] thinks that by arresting me or removing me from public life, it’s over. That Brazil's problems are solved. But it’s not like that.

You're just following orders here, but—not your case specifically—please remember that the people in Hitler’s courts also followed orders to send Jews to gas chambers. They all paid their price one day, and it won’t be different in Brazil. What they’re doing to me is cowardice.”