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US President Donald Trump has called on Brazilian authorities to end their criminal persecution of former country president Jeir Bolsonaro, accusing them of performing “witches hunting.”
Bolsonaro, who ruled Brazil between 2019 and 2022, is a permanent court for an alleged coup attempt against current President Luis Inasio Lula da Silva. The former leader denied participation in every alleged plot.
In a social media publication, Trump said Bolsonaro was not guilty of nothing but fighting for people “and told prosecutors to” leave Bolsonaro to peace! “
President Lula said Brazil is a sovereign country that “will not accept intervention or instruction from anyone.”
“No one is above the law. Especially those who threaten the freedom and rule of law,” he wrote in a publication about X.
In his worse post on Truth Social Trump, Trump praised Bolsonaro as a “strong leader” who “really loved his country”.
The US President compared the Bolsonaro prosecutor’s office to the legal affairs he himself confronted between his two presidential terms.
“This is nothing more or less than an attack on a political opponent – something I know a lot about! It happened to me, Times 10,” Trump said.
Bolsonaro thanked Trump for his comments, describing the case against him as a “clear political persecution” in a social media publication.
In response to Trump’s remarks, the Minister of Institutional Affairs Gilizi Hoffman said: “The time when Brazil was subordinate to the United States was Bolsonaro’s time.”
“The US President must take care of his own problems, which are not small, and respect the sovereignty of Brazil and our judiciary,” she added.
The back and fourth comes when Lula hosted representatives of China, Russia and other nations at the BRICS Summit in Rio de Janeiro.
Trump earlier threatened to impose additional tariffs against countries in accordance with What he called the “anti -American” policies of the blockS
Trump and Bolsonaro enjoyed friendly relations when their chairings overlap, with the White House couple in 2019.
Both men subsequently lost the presidential election and they both refused to publicly acknowledge the defeat.
A week after taking up the Lula in January 2023, Thousands of supporters of Bolsonaro storm government buildings In the capital, Brazil in what federal investigators say it is an attempt to coup.
Bolsonaro was in the United States at that time and always denied any relationship with the rebels.
He was banned from running for a public office until 2030, as he was falsely claimed that the Brazil vote system was vulnerable to fraud, but he said he intended to fight this ban and run for a second term in 2026.
Taking into court for the first time last month, Bolsonaro said a coup was a “disgusting thing”. The 70-year-old could have faced decades in prison if he was sentenced.