The son of the former president of Brazil’s right of right, Jair Bolsonaro, puts pressure on the Trump administration on his father’s “persecution” to direct a coup d’etat and argued that the judge leading the case corresponds to the criteria of American sanctions.
Eduardo Bolsonaro, a member of the Federal Congress in Brazil, said that American officials and pro -Trump legislators had been receptive to his arguments that Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva – a democratically elected left president – “crushed” conservative opposition and causing the country to authoritarianism.
The best prosecutor in Brazil accused Jair Bolsonaro last month of having directed a plot to grasp the power after losing the 2022 presidential election against Lula.
Investigators allegedly alleged that conspirators, including main military officers, intended to kill Lula, his vice-president Geraldo Alckmin and the judge of the Supreme Court Alexandre de Moraes. The Supreme Court is likely to hear the business next month.
“Jair Bolsonaro is already a sentenced man,” Eduardo told Financial Times in a video interview. “It is very likely that they 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 the world what’s going on in Brazil. . . The country is plunged into the dictatorship. »»
He said he did not ask for a direct American intervention in the case of his father, just for “the restoration of democracy and freedom”.
Eduardo Bolsonaro said he was not personally pressure [US Treasury] Sanctions. . . It is not I who will have it sanctioned it, it is its own behavior ”.
The Congress member refused to say what officials of the American administration he met on three Washington trips in January and February, or to give details on the talks, but said that “all the meetings we ask for are accepted”, noting that he was playing close ties to the Trump camp for years.
Jair Bolsonaro could not accept an invitation to the inauguration of Trump because Moraes forced him to make his passport, considering him a risk of theft.
Brazilian prosecutors now weigh whether Eduardo’s passport should be removed after two Lula party legislators accused him of “crimes against national sovereignty” for having allegedly put pressure against the Brazilian Supreme Court in the United States.
Eduardo described their effort as an attempt to “silence me”.
President Donald Trump was friendly with Jair Bolsonaro when they were both depending on 2019 to 2020. Trump mentioned Eduardo at a conservative conference last month in Washington, thanking the Congress member and saying: “Say hello to your father. . . Big family!
Eduardo Bolsonaro affirmed in his conference speech that Brazil had become a “field of testing for the armaments of the courts against libertarians and conservative Christians, always under the noble claim to” protect democracy “.
There are already signs of diplomatic tension.
Last month, Trump’s media group joined the American video sharing platform Rumble in a trial against Moraes in Florida, accusing it of “extraterritorial censorship”.
Brazilian justice then blocked Rumble in the South American country not to comply with judicial decisions, in particular a request for a ban on the story of a Brazilian citizen based in the United States. But the judge in Florida said that the orders of Moraes had no legal force in the United States.
The following week, the US State Department attacked Brazil for its legal battles with American social media companies. “Blocking access to information and imposing fines on American companies to refuse to censor people living in the United States is incompatible with democratic values,” he said.
The Ministry of Brazil of Foreign Affairs said that he had rejected “any attempt to politicize legal decisions” and accused the Department of State to “distort the sense of [Brazil] Decisions of the Supreme Court ”.
De Moraes is a controversial figure in Brazil which led a large -scale judicial repression against the “false news”. Supporters say that his orders to withdraw the posts and accounts have helped to save democracy, but the opponents accuse him of exceeding and targeting conservatives.
Eduardo argued that US Magnitsky law, designed to punish Russian officials for raw violations of human rights, could be used against Moraes because of its actions against freedom of expression and political opponents in Brazil.
The former president’s son said he learned how Trump fought his own legal battles that “you are not working on these issues of legal persecution in the courts of the courts. You have to work on everything politically ”.
A person with links to the Trump camp suggested that Eduardo was driving. “It is the American government’s policy to fight censorship,” they said.
The prosecutors presented the case against Jair Bolsonaro in a 272 -page indictment, saying that they had evidence of the alleged coup of coup in 2022, including a confession by a former close to Bolsonaro assistant. The supporters of Bolsonaro stormed the presidential palace and the congress the following month, occupying and vandalizing the buildings before being arrested.
Eduardo made fun of the indictment, stressing that the insurrection in Brasília occurred on a Sunday where the government’s buildings were empty, Lula was outside the city and that her father was in Florida.
“What kind of coup is it?” He asked. “It’s about as effective as I try to shoot my mobile phone. This is called an “impossible crime”. »»
He remains provocative. “We have no choice,” he said. “Our only option is to continue walking in the death valley with a lot of faith in God and doing the right thing.”
