While staying in USA denouncing persecution against his father, the parliamentarian said during an interview with Claudio Dantas believes that it is “Very likely” that Trump advances with sanctions and begins to use “other instruments” if the verdict that will be known at the end of the month is adverse.
“Trump still did not start, even closely, all the mechanisms at his disposal to press Brazil,” said Bolsonaro. For its part, the Brazilian police He investigates him for an attempt to obstruct justice because of his maneuvers to stop the trial.
In that sense, Eduardo He said that one of the possibilities he analyzed with the US Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Besent, would be to extend the application of the Magnitsky Lawthe norm designed to punish human rights violations that was used to freeze the assets that Judge Alexandre de Moraes, the instructor of the case for coup in the Supreme Court, I could have in the US.
The US official said that the next objectives could be De Moraes’ wifewhom he considers the “financial arm” of the magistrate, and the judges of the highest court who vote in favor of an eventual conviction of his father.
In addition to the case against his father, the deputy also mentioned the intention of the Brazilian government to regulate social networks despite the opposition of the White House and warned that the country is “Filling all the boxes for an increase in tariffs.”
Trump imposed tariffs of up to 50 % on a good part of Brazil’s imports and cited as one of the reasons to make the supposed “Witch hunting” against former President Bolsonaro (2019-2022).
In this framework, Eduardo Bolsonaro clarified: “Trump will not back down without a Brazilian side.”
The US warned that the process against Bolsonaro “threatens democracy”
Weeks ago, the State Department of USA criticized the decision of Of Moraesmember of the Supreme Federal Court of Brazil, to impose house prison to Bolsonaro. According to an official statement, the measure “threatens democracy” and restricts the right of the ex -president to express itself publicly.
Through his Western Hemisphere Affairs Office, the American entity said: “Minister Alexandre de Moraes, already sanctioned by the US for human rights violations, It continues to use Brazilian institutions to silence the opposition and threaten democracy“
In that line, he completed that “imposing even more restrictions on Jair Bolsonaro’s ability to defend herself publicly is not a public service. Let Bolsonaro speak!”
The Supreme Court of Brazil ordered the house prison of Jair Bolsonaro
The reaction of the US authorities came after the magistrate ordered the house prison of Bolsonaro The measure was adopted due to the “repeated breach of precautionary measures” that weighed on the ex -president.
Bolsonaro, who faces several open causes before the Brazilian justice, had been subject to judicial restrictions since the beginning of this year, in the framework of investigations for his role in the coup attacks of January 8, 2023, his alleged participation in the elaboration of a decree of coup d’etat and the undue appropriation of jewels belonging to the State.
From this measure, you must refrain from get out of home during the night and weekendsuse social networks, communicate with your son Eduardo and approach embassies.
Source: Ambito
