The former president () said on Tuesday (15) have passion for the president of, and that his passport back to talk to him about the 50% tariff imposed on all Brazilian products from August 1.
He also stated that no one celebrates the fare and denied that he or his son Eduardo Bolsonaro (PL-SP), a licensed deputy, acted for it. The statements were made in interviews to the Power360 website and CNN Brazil.
Neither Eduardo nor Bolsonaro criticized the imposition of the tariff since the measure was announced by Trump on the last day 9.
The licensed deputy, who has been in the US since March in mobilization for the US government to pressure Brazil about his father’s case, has been linked to any negotiation about the “broad, general and unrestricted amnesty.”
Defendant In the case of the coup plot at the Supreme Court (STF), Bolsonaro is without a passport. As the Monica Bergamo column, Governor Tarcisio de Freitas (Republicans), from São Paulo, has shown the return of the document to Bolsonaro, which was misunderstood by the magistrates.
On Tuesday, the former president said he doesn’t know what’s going on in Trump’s head. “He’s unpredictable. I like him, I’m in love with him. I’m in love with the American people, the American policy, the country that is the United States, I’ve never denied it since my days as a boy.”
“He treated me, treats me as a brother, and he put my name in that first line.
Earlier, Trump said in the United States that Bolsonaro.
By announcing the surcharge last week, Trump sent a letter to President Lula (PT) in the letter in which he criticized the STF and left Bolsonaro’s defense.
Trump opens the letter mentioning his relationship with the former president, whom he calls “highly respected leader.” He criticizes the former president’s trial by the Supreme Court in the case of the coup plot classifying him as “international shame.”
The former president said they want to blame him for surcharge and that he is not “vibrating” with the ally’s decision. “Give me the passport, which I talk to. Who is the president is Lula, it is not me. He has to look for an alternative, but continues to be staring at US government,” he told CNN.
During the interview, Bolsonaro first said he would not interfere with the fare, but then openly showed interest in talking to the US President.
“I will not interfere, I will not guess the life of Trump, I have deep gratitude for him, we had excellent relationship, we talked about many things around the world, we did a lot of plans, it seems that we were dating,” he said initially.
Then he said that during his government, he managed to reverse an attempt by Trump to tax Brazilian steel and would like to talk to the American about it, but would need to be freedom for it.
“If you continue Brazil advancing to the left, Lula talking bullshit all the time, this rate of 50% that can be diminished, I think I have the power to solve this subject. Part of it, but I have to be free to talk to Trump, at the moment I have no passport I have,” he said.
The former president also said that he will not leave the country because he already has many health problems and because he wants to go to the end in his trial. He also said that he does not consider asking for political asylum.
The crisis around the surcharge has generated barbs exchange between Eduardo Bolsonaro and Governor Tarcisio. The former president’s son ranked disrespect for the former infrastructure minister to seek negotiating with the US representation, despite his father’s endorsement.
In an interview with Power360, Bolsonaro said he talked to both of them and “put a stone” on the subject. According to said, it is the governor’s obligation to seek solution to his state. Later, to CNN, he said that the solution to the surcharge will not come from Tarcisio, but by his son Eduardo.
“Those at the head of this negotiation will be Eduardo Nantes Bolsonaro. Anyone who wants to contact him asks me, I pass the phone and talk to Eduardo. Who is inside the White House, the capitol, talk to Trump’s executive people, Trump parliament to look for a solution,” he said.
