Government allies see the announcement that it will impose 50% rates against Brazil as a direct interference in the Brazilian political process, with the aim of benefiting the former president and supporters, and evaluate that the economic losses generated by Washington measure to opposition is needed.
Trump published on Wednesday (9) on a social network a letter addressed to Lula. In it, the Republican announces that it will apply the taxation against Brazil and cites the trial of former President Bolsonaro.
The American states that the way Brazil has treated Bolsonaro is a “shame” and that the trial against the former president is a “witch hunt” that needs to be closed immediately. “
According to the letter, the rates will be charged from August 1. Trump talks about “secret and illegal” orders issued against media platforms, and violation of “freedom of expression of Americans.”
For Lula’s assistants, Trump’s letter obviously links that commercial punishment against Brazil is related to the action of Bolsonaro and his son, (), against the management of the petista and the investigations of the Supreme Court (Supreme Court) who aimed at the former Mottizer.
Eduardo licensed his term in March and moved to the United States to defend with US authorities sanctions against STF Minister Alexandre de Moraes and against Lula management.
For Lula’s advisors, who make a preliminary analysis of the measure, it will be up to Bolsonaro and the opposition to carry the political burden of economic damage that tariffs will cause.
This speech has already been explored by allies with the Plateau. Former Federal Deputy Perpetual Almeida (PC do B-AC), for example, wrote on a social network that Bolsonaro and Eduardo cause “great damage to Brazil” and that it is necessary to join “in defense of our sovereignty”.
On Social Network X, Federal Deputy Guilherme Boulos (PSOL-SP) called Trump’s tariffs “Bolsonaro Rate” in publication with an assembly of Jair Bolsonaro’s images using the Trumpist Movement cap “Make America Great Again” on the one hand, and Lula wearing a cap is “Brazil is from Brazilians”, on the other.
Minister Gleisi Hoffmamn of the Secretariat of Institutional Relations also published in X, and associated the decision with Bolsonaro, as well as reinforcing Government’s speech on rich taxation.
“Lula’s project is to tax the super rich, Bolsonaro’s is to tax Brazil!” He wrote. “Bolsonaro’s subservience to the US is costing the country dearly. The lies he and his family spread over Brazil and the Supreme Court served as a pretext for Donald Trump to tax Brazilian exports.”
In the publication, she further states that “Trump has never been concerned about democracy anywhere, let alone Bolsonaro’s fate. What he fears is the strengthening of global southern commercial and financial relationships, which Brazil helps to build in the BRICS and other global forums. We will not be hostage to Trump or Bolsonaro.”
An assistant in the Planalto Palace also cites the fact that the House Foreign Commission, controlled by Bolsonarists, has.
Bolsonaro’s ally of the deputy (PL-RJ), the deputy (PL-RJ), states that the American “must be praised and remembered as a better presidents in the world and example to be followed for the implementation and maintenance of a modern and fair democracy.”
For this assistant, this type of opposition action opens a flank to be held responsible for the rates.
Another point in the preliminary analysis of Lula’s allies is that Trump left a patent in the letter an attempt to interference with Brazil’s political process, as well as in STF actions that have Bolsonaro and large technology companies, the so -called Big Techs, as a target.
According to them, this politicizes the tariff war against Brazil and leaves no room for the Lula or the Supreme Government to make concessions to US requirements.
