The president of, made a new post on his social network social network at the beginning of the early hours of Wednesday (9) in Brazil defending the former president ().
“Leave the great former president of Brazil in peace. Witched hunt !!! “, wrote using capital letters.
The comment was made by reposing the previous one who at the time, Trump had also spoken in “Halloween” and said Bolsonaro’s trial should be done at the polls.
“This is nothing less than an attack on a political opponent – algo I know very well! It has happened to me, ten times worse, and now our country is the most ‘hot’ in the world!” The US president continued, without indicating who this “political opponent,” he wrote.
“The great people of Brazil will not tolerate what they are doing with their former president. I will be closely following the witch hunt against Jair Bolsonaro, his family and thousands of his supporters. The only judgment that should be happening is the trial by the vote of the Brazilian people. This is called Bolsonaro in peace,” the president said in the first message.
Still on Monday, the president reacted. In note ,. “The defense of democracy in Brazil is a topic that competes for Brazilians. We are a sovereign country.”
Like Lula, the Minister of Institutional Relations, Gleisi Hoffmann (PT), reacted to Trump’s statement, stating that the American cannot interfere with the Brazilian judicial process.
Trump’s offensive occurs amid the pressure and expectation of pockets for the United States to apply a sanction to the minister. The articulation has people close to the US President, such as former Trump Assessor Jason Miller.
People linked to Trump, such as far-right ideologue Steve Bannon say that Moraes’s only way to avoid being sanctioned would be if the former president’s accusations were archived. He and members of the Trump government see an action of the judiciary to try to benefit Lula.
Bolsonaro is ineligible by decision of the TSE (Superior Electoral Court) and is also the subject of criminal action in the Supreme Court, investigated for plotting a blow to the 2022 election.
Despite the invested of the American, STF ministers has stated that the action will not generate any interference in the process and that the trial will follow normally. Bolsonaro is expected to be tried between August and September.
