The United States returned to comment on Thursday’s decision of the Federal Supreme Court (STF) to condemn the former President of the Republic Jair Bolsonaro in the investigation that found an attempted coup. In the X, the Undersecretary of US Public Diplomacy, Darren Beattie, said the conviction is “another chapter of the Complex of Persecution and Censorship” of Minister Alexandre de Moraes.
Beattie’s publication, also shared by the US embassy in Brazil, says Moraes is a “sanctioned human rights violator who has Bolsonaro and his supporters as a target”.
The Undersecretary ends by saying that the country will face this “dark unfolding with the utmost seriousness.”
On July 30, Moraes was sanctioned by the US Treasury through the Global Magnitsky Law, which authorizes the US to impose economic blocks on corruption or serious human rights violations.
On Thursday, US President Donald Trump called Jair Bolsonaro’s conviction as “terrible” and said he was “very unhappy” with the trial. “I think it’s very bad for Brazil,” he told reporters.
Trump praised the former president in two moments, calling him a good man and a good ruler. “And I always found him very righteous, very remarkable.”
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Asked about the possibility of new sanctions against Brazil, the president did not respond.
The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, said the US will react “properly” to “this witch hunt.” According to him, “the political persecution of the Human Rights Violator Sanctioned Moraes continue, as he and other members of the Supreme have unjustly decided to arrest Bolsonaro,” he wrote in X.
Undersecretary of State, Christopher Landau, said the relationship between Brazil and the United States lives the “darkest point in two centuries” after the conviction. In his X account, he said he did not see a way out of the crisis while the bilateral future is “in the hands of Minister Moraes.”
