Brazil is not the only country where the president of, tries to interfere with the judiciary to help an ideological ally. In recent months, in addition to pressuring the acquittal of the former president, Trump has gone in defense of the Prime Minister of,, the leader of the French ultra-right, and the former president of Colombia Alvaro Uribe, all targets of court proceedings. The American agent also defended quite vocally aligned candidates aligned with Trumpiso in Poland and Romania.
It is a kind of mirror diplomacy. The American leader identifies himself with right -wing politicians under investigation. Trump says that, like him, they are victims of a persecution led by appailed judicial systems. The Republican, to ensure her silence about alleged relationship with him.
“This (Jair Bolsonaro’s trial) is simply an attack on a political opponent – algo I know very well! It happened to me, ten times more,” Trump wrote when he announced 50% tariffs about Brazilian products in July this year.
Referring to legal proceedings against Bolsonaro, Netanyahu, and Le Pen, the American resorts to the term “witch hunt”, the same one he used to question his investigation.
For now, however, Trump’s pressures on judicial systems and intrusion into electoral processes in other countries have not had an effect.
In June, when Netanyahu was going to present himself to an Israeli court to testify, Trump said the trial should be “canceled immediately.” “It’s an insanity what the out of control prosecutors are doing with Bibi Netanyahu.”
The US president also implied that he could cut US military aid to Israel. “The United States of America spends billions of dollars a year, much more than with any other nation, protecting and supporting Israel. We won’t tolerate it.”
The day after Trump’s warnings, an accused in 2019, accused of bribery, fraud and breach of confidence, the Israeli prime minister denies the accusations. The trial will be resumed this week, with the testimony of Netanyahu.
Trump also used his mirror diplomacy with French politics Marine Le Pen. .
“Witch hunt against Marine Le Pen is another example of European leftists using lawfare to silence freedom of expression and censor political opponents,” Trump said. “It is the same ‘manual’ that was used against me by a group of lunatics and defeated,” he wrote.
Regarding the trial of Alvaro Uribe in Colombia, Trump did not speak personally, but his secretary of state, Marco Rubio, attacked the local judiciary after the conviction of the right -wing leader. In early August, a Bogota Court ordered the 12 -year household prison Uribe, for passive corruption of witnesses and procedural fraud.
Also in the electoral seara the results of trumpus diplomacy have been frustrating, except for the conservative candidate for president of Poland, Karol Nawrockki, who won the election. He was received by Trump at the White House during the campaign and already as president. Already in Canada and Australia, candidates aligned with Trumpiso were favorite, but ended up losing to centrists. The Canadian Liberal Party recovered in the polls after Trump launched his trade war against Ottawa and threatens to attach the country. Mark Meatary became Prime Minister. In Australia, the candidate “Maga” Peter Dutton was defeated, and the labor party won the majority.
In Romania, centrist presidential candidate Nicusor Dan defeated in May the candidate aligned with trumpster, radical George Simion, who was a favorite. .
In the Brazilian government’s view, Trump’s pressure to influence Bolsonaro’s trial is part of a broader strategy of trying to get a candidate aligned with trumps in Brazil next year. For a member of Planalto, American interference should continue until the first or second round of the 2026 elections.
In case of defeat by Trump -backed candidate in the presidential election, the Planalto believes, the White House can launch a campaign to delegitimize the ballot box, as Trump did in 2020 in the US and Bolsonaro in Brazil in 2022.
