A few hours after Jair Bolsonaro’s lawyers secure before the Supreme Federal Court (SFT) that there are no evidence that links the former Army with the attempted overthrow and murder of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, in January 2023, Donald Trump He decided to serve from Washington as a parallel defender of the ultra -rightist leader. “Brazil has some very bad laws. They have put a president in jail. And I know that man, and I will say one thing: SOy good judging people. I think it’s an honest manOr, and I think what they have done is … really a political murder. It seems terrible to me. “The US president returned in this way to associate Bolsonaro’s judicial situation with 50% tariffs on Brazilian exports.
“There is no evidence of the coup imagined by the accusation“, said the lawyers of the ex -president last Tuesday as an allegation. The Republican billiona also offered imaginary considerations to justify the taxes that have governed for a week. “Brazil has been a horrible commercial partner in terms of tariffs. As they know, they charge us huge tariffs, much, much higher than those that were charged to them. In fact, we practically do not charge anything, “Trump told journalists in the Oval Hall of the White House. The press media of the South American giant remember that in rigor it is that country that registers a deficit in their commercial relationship with the United States for 17 years. The bilateral trade balance benefits the US for 1600 million dollars.
“Brazil is a good partner, but it is not going to kneel before the US government,” Lula said. The new rate affects 36 % of exported products and includes important items such as agricultural machinery, meat and coffee. Deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro He announced from Washington, where he has been articulating the links with Trumpism for months, he suggested that the White House prepares new sanctions against the Brazilian authorities and even tariffs superior to those who have triggered the crisis. “There is no scenario in which the Supreme Court is victorious of all this mess. They are in conflict with the greatest economic power in the world,” added the former president’s son and did nothing but confirm the political centrality of the imposition of taxes. The decree signed at the time by Trump emphasized the role of the Judge of the STF, Alexandre de Moraes, in the process against the former army. De Moraes is not only the main enemy of Bolsonarism. It was sanctioned by the United States. “The banks that keep accounts with De Moraes run a serious risk. A notification can arrive, a violent fine can reach. There is a very high possibility that the temperature increases even more for certain Brazilian authorities“The rod predicted.
Lula’s answer
The workers’ party leader (PT) described Bolsonaro Jr. de “Traitor to the country“And he defended his dismissal as a deputy. He said that his father sent him to the United States to” instigate Americans against us “and” we cannot be silent. Given the possibility that Washington radicalizes its commercial policy towards Brazil, the president said: “If you don’t want to buy, I’m not going to cry, or drag, I’m going to look for other countries and we’ll continue. I have learned to walk with my head up. I want this country to be respected. If I respect the American people, he has to respect the Brazilian people. “In this regard, he defended the policy of assistance to companies affected by the” tariff “, as the journalistic media began to qualify him.” We will not let them starve. And we are not going to cry because he stopped buying, no. We are going to sell to China, India, Russia, Germany, any Lugar. In just two and a half years, we open 400 markets. Yesterday we started selling meat to the Philippines, which they bought us at all, “he said when opening a hemoderivated factory and biotechnology in the Northeast.
The Bolsonaro case polarizes society. A new survey by the consulting firm Datafolha realizes that 51% of the interviewed people approve the house arrest ordered by De Moraes. 53%, consider that the judge acts in accordance with the laws. 39% accept Trump’s argument and estimates that Moraes chases Bolsonaro for political reasons. A survey of Atlas and Bloomberg sets out that the magistrate has a positive image of 49%, the largest among the members of the STF.
