The son of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro lobbies Trump’s administration for his “persecution” of his father on charges that he had made a conspiracy about a coup and claimed that the judge leading the case corresponds to the criteria for US sanctions.
Eduardo Bolsonaro, a federal Congressman in Brazil, said that US officials and pro-trump legislators were sensitive to his arguments that Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva-Democratically elected left president had “destroyed” conservative opposition and dragged the country towards authoritarism.
Brazilian best prosecutor The accused Jair Bolsonaro last month of making a conspiracy for seizing power after losing the presidential election in 2022 in Lulu.
Investigators claimed that the cartoonists, including high military officers, intended to kill Lula, their Vice -President Gerald Alckmina and the Judge of the Supreme Court Alexandre de Moraes. The Supreme Court is likely to listen to the case from next month.
“Jair Bolsonaro is already a convicted man,” Eduardo told the Financial Times in a video interview. “It is very likely that he will try to kill him in prison or that he will never leave prison. The only thing I can do is go abroad and shout to the world about what is happening in Brazil.. The country gets into dictatorship.”
He claimed that he did not seek direct American intervention in the case of his father, only for “renewing democracy and freedom”.
Eduardo Bolsonaro said he personally did not lobby for Trump’s administration to apply sanctions on De Moraes, but added: “Speaking as a congressman with parliamentary immunity, Alexandre de Moraes has more than fulfilled the conditions for that [US Treasury] sanctions. . . I’m not me who will sanction him, it’s his own behavior. “
Congressman refused to say what the US administration officials he met during three trips to Washington in January and February, or gave details about conversations, but said that “all the meetings we seek were accepted,” noting that he had enjoyed close ties with Trump’s campaign for years.
Jair Bolsonaro failed to accept the invitation to Trump’s inauguration, because De Moraes forced him to hand over the passport, considering it the risk of flight.
Brazilian prosecutors are now wearing whether to take away Eduard’s passport after being accused by two members of the Party of Party of “crimes against national sovereignty” for allegedly lobbying against the Brazilian Supreme Court in the United States.
Eduardo described his efforts as an offer to “silence” me.
President Donald Trump was friendly with Jair Bolsonar while both were in power from 2019 to 2020. Last month, Trump mentioned Eduardt in Washington at the conservative conference, thanked the congressman and told him, “Greet his father.. A great family!”
In his conference speech, Eduardo Bolsonaro claimed that Brazil had become “testing for weapons of courts against conservative libertarians and Christians, always under the noble pronunciation of” protection of democracy “.
There are already signs of diplomatic tension.
Last month, Trump’s media group joined us a platform for sharing a rumble video in a law against De Moraes, Florida, accusing him of “extraterritorial censorship”.
The Brazilian justice then blocked the rumble in the South American country because it did not adhere to the court judgment, including the request to prohibit the account of the Brazilian citizen based in the United States. But the Florida Judge said that De Moraesa’s orders do not have a legal force in the US.
Next week, the US State Department attacked Brazil because of legal battles with US social media companies. “Blocking access to information and imposing financial fines to US companies for refusing to censorship people living in the US is incompatible with democratic values,” it said.
The Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that it rejected “any attempt to politicize court decisions” and accused the state department of “distortion of meaning [Brazil] Supreme Court Decisions ”.
De Moraes is a controversial figure in Brazil, who led a wide court proceedings on “false news”. Supporters say that his orders to overthrow the posts and accounts helped save democracy, but his opponents accused him of exceeding and targeting conservatives.
Eduardo claimed the US Magnitsky Law, conceived to punish Russian officials for rough breach of human rights, could be used against De Moraes for his actions against free speech and political opponents in Brazil.
The son of the former president said he learned that Trump had fought against his legal battles: “Do not work on these issues of legal persecution within the sphere of courts. You have to work on everything political.”
A person with relationships to the Trump camp suggested that Eduardo was falling into. “The US government policy is to fight censorship,” they said.
Prosecutors presented a case against Jair Bolsonar in an indictment on 272 pages, saying that they have evidence of alleged conspiracy for the 2022 coup, including the recognition of the former close assistant Bolsonar. The supporters of Bolsonar broke through the presidential palace and Congress next month, occupying and vandating the buildings before being arrested.
Eduardo mocked the indictment, pointing out that the rebellion in Brasílija happened on Sunday when the government buildings were empty, the pipe was out of town and his father in Florida.
“What a state blow is that?” he asked. “It’s about as effective as I try to fire a bullet from your mobile phone. This is what is called” impossible crime “in the law.”
It remains defiant. “We have no choice,” he said. “Our only option is to continue walking the valley of death with a lot of faith in God and do the right thing.”
