“Nearly 2 years to the day the US Capitol was attacked by fascists, we see fascist movements abroad attempt to do the same in Brazil,” said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., on Twitter, adding that the “US must cease granting refuge to Bolsonaro in Florida.”Democratic lawmakers, including Reps. Joaquin Castro of Texas, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Mark Takano of California, echoed calls for Bolsonaro's removal from the country.The attack Sunday on government buildings in Brasilia followed Bolsonaro’s decision to skip the inauguration of his leftist rival Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and fly to the U.S. instead, where he has been staying in suburban Orlando, according to reports not confirmed by NBC News.White House national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, told reporters Monday that Biden had not yet spoken with Lula and that the administration had not received any official requests from the Brazilian government regarding Bolsonaro.“Everybody knows there are various speeches of the ex-president encouraging this.”Bolsonaro later rejected the allegations, saying on Twitter that peaceful protest was part of a democracy but that vandalism and invasion of buildings were “exceptions to the rule.”Although challenging the election results and casting doubt on the voting process, Bolsonaro has stopped short of an explicit call for action.“He’s afraid that if he said something like Trump did, he could be prosecuted and then be put in jail, especially when he lost the election,” Yuri Kasahara, a senior researcher at Oslo Metropolitan University in Norway, told NBC News, adding that Bolsonaro had lost his presidential immunity."