It is undeniable: the government put a trump card in the hands of () and added a fact to the photo in the Oval Office of the White House. It helped the senator change the course of the Master case, allowing him to link the request made two days earlier to the .
There is no way to separate the gesture from the electoral context or escape the observation that the State Department signaled that the chemistry between Trump and President Luiz Inácio da Silva (PT) has a limit. The debate was not freely captured by politicians because, given the moment and form, politics is at the heart of the issue.
If this does not constitute classic interference by the American government in the Brazilian electoral process, it gives rise to the interpretation that there is a clear preference in Washington. Or would Trump, Marco Rubio and company be mere innocents useful in Bolsonar’s plan to embarrass the president on his quest for re-election? It is definitely not a case of innocence.
It’s also difficult to accept that it was a coincidence. Three weeks earlier, Trump had been with Lula and, by not broaching the topic, he gave himself the opportunity to boast of his cleverness in not having brought up the subject in three hours of conversation.
We would later see that the omission left the PT member sold on the situation. In the meantime, Jair Bolsonaro’s (PL) representative in the presidential race became entangled in Daniel Vorcaro’s network of deceit, was called to a meeting at the White House in which he emphasized the request for the framing of the factions and then came the decision that placed Flávio Bolsonaro as an influential interlocutor.
The tide could turn if the change in legal status does not change daily life in the dominated areas or if there is damage to the economy due to undue US interference here.
Even so, the reaction based on the defense of sovereignty, as was the case with the tariff, seems insufficient, because the population demands answers in public security that the government has failed to provide.
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