One day after , , the senator (-RJ) returned to the White House this Wednesday (27) and met with the US Vice President, JD Vance, and the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio.
On his last day in Washington, the PL pre-candidate for President gave an interview to journalists outside the hotel where he was staying.
Flávio refused to answer questions about topics that were not linked to the US agenda and said that he once again asked representatives of the American government that the criminal factions PCC and CV be designated as terrorist organizations.
Planalto believes that this classification would provide margin. After the meeting he had with Trump, three weeks ago, Lula stated that this issue was not discussed, but that a proposal for cooperation between the USA and Brazil to combat the virus was presented.
When Lula was with Trump, Rubio was at the Vatican, and no State Department representatives participated in the event.
Flávio says that the PT member acts to protect the factions. This has been Bolsonarists’ justification for criticizing the federal government’s attempt to avoid the designation. According to the senator, the secretary would have been in favor of the designation.
“He seemed to me to be in favor of this. We were there for just over 30 minutes”, said Flávio, who mentioned that they opened a gap in their schedule. However, there were no guarantees or a stipulated period for designating the factions as terrorists.
Asked why Trump didn’t make any post about the meeting, Flávio said he didn’t know. “I don’t know, I know that I am very honored to, as a senator of the Republic, a pre-candidate for the presidency of the Republic, be received by the highest authorities of the largest democracy in the world,” he said.
On the same day that Trump received Lula, for example, the Republican made a post on social media, calling the PT member dynamic and saying that the meeting had been very good. How to Sheet showed, Trump spoke about Lula and praised the PT member during the meeting with Flávio, calling him, again, dynamic.
The PL pre-candidate also claims that the US Vice President, JD Vance, questioned freedom of expression and press in Brazil. The PL pre-candidate claims to have commented on Lula’s recent decrees on big tech.
“We only updated that the Lula government had just published two decrees, which were obviously a threat to freedom of expression, and which worried us a lot”, he says in reference to the decrees published by President Lula on Wednesday (20) to regulate the Marco Civil da Internet.
The decrees regulate the 2025 STF decision that expanded the responsibility of platforms for third-party content. One of them gives the ANPD (National Data Protection Agency) the power to monitor whether companies are complying with the new obligations — and to apply punishments, such as a fine of up to 10% of revenue, suspension and ban on activity. The other creates specific rules to curb digital violence against women. The rules come into force in 60 days.
Department of State
Earlier, he met this Wednesday (27) with Christopher Landau, US Deputy Secretary of State, and Darren Beattie, counselor and advisor in charge of relations with Brazil. Secretary Marco Rubio was not present at this time, as he was participating in a cabinet meeting at the White House.
At the State Department, the senator was also accompanied by Eduardo Bolsonaro and Paulo Figueiredo. According to Figueiredo, issues of cooperation between Brazil and the USA were discussed in view of the eventual election of the senator, in addition to the urgency of designating the PCC and Comando Vermelho as foreign terrorist organizations.
