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The President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, with former Chief of Staff of the Armada, at the time Admiral Henrique Gouveia and Melo.
The admiral in the reserve criticized the President of the Republic, who stated that Donald Trump is a Soviet asset, arguing that a president should not make personal comments because it represents the Portuguese State – that an ancient KGB spy revealed it in 2021.
Henrique Gouveia and Melo criticized this Friday MARCELO REBELO DE SOUSAwho considered that his US counterpart, Donald Trump, currently acts as a “” by favoring the Russian Federation in the war against Ukraine.
“A peculiar and complex thing is that the maximum leader of the largest superpower in the world, objectively, is a Soviet assetor Russian. Works as active“Said the President of the Republic, who in the 2025 edition of the Summer University of the PSD.
“The president should not do personal comments or personal character, because it represents the Portuguese State, and We are an allied state From the US state, ”said Gouveia and Melo to journalists in Lagoa, in the Algarve.
Speaking on the sidelines of one to one industrial fair in Lagoa, Algarve, the presidential candidate stated that “qUEM defines foreign policy is the governmenttherefore, the President of the Republic It’s just a representative of this policy“.
Asked if Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa’s statements can trigger a diplomatic conflict with the US, Henrique Gouveia and Melo noticed “that only Americans can decide on this“.
“We are an ally from the United States of America And we live in troubled moments in the international order and should keep our alliances at the most critical moments, ”he said.
Also at this point Gouveia and Melo seems to be in dissonance with the President of the Republic, who in February this year referred to the United States as the “”.
The statements of the president, who had wide repercussions in the international press, also deserved a comment from the government, which recalled that the Conducting foreign policy is not competence of the head of state.
According to, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Paulo Rangelit was left “very angry”With Marcelo’s words about Trump, and he even received a Washington phone.
Rangel, who is in Copenhagen to meet with his European Union counterparts, refused to comment on the president’s statements, but in statements to RTP, he stressed that “ Conducting foreign policy It is up to the government and therefore Obviously it is through the government that Portugal’s positions are conveyed in this plan ”.
The most media voice to comment on the topic abroad, says, was that of Seth Jonesformer high employee of the US Department of Defense, who analyzed at CNN Internacional the statements of the Portuguese president.
The American expert admitted that “it is an exaggeration to classify Trump as a Russian asset”-something he heard “of other European leaders in private“But it considers“There is no proof in this regard”.
It may not be quite.
According to the former kgb spy in January 2021 Yuri shvets The British newspaper Donald Trump was cultivated as a Russian asset during More than 40 yearsand showed so willing to Repeat anti-western advertising that “there were celebrations in Moscow.”
There are apparently old evidence, and eventually recent actions that Donald Trump can even be a “Soviet asset,” as many seem to think. But Some cannot say.
