Now Sec. of State Rubio is issuing threats over Bolsonaro's conviction. Way weird.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the U.S. would respond after former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was convicted of plotting a coup to remain in power.
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"The political persecutions by sanctioned human rights abuser Alexandre de Moraes continue, as he and others on Brazil's supreme court have unjustly ruled to imprison former President Jair Bolsonaro," Rubio wrote on X.
"The United States will respond accordingly to this witch hunt," he continued.
Brazil's Foreign Ministry argued that Rubio's comment represented a threat that "attacks Brazilian authority and ignores the facts and the compelling evidence in the records."
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Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, his unspecified allies on the court and his immediate family members will face visa revocations, according to Rubio, who criticized what he called a "political witch hunt" against the former president.
That same month, Rubio announced visa revocations on Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who presided over Bolsonaro's criminal case, and his unspecified allies on the court after the court issued search warrants and restraining orders against Bolsonaro.
The U.S. Treasury Department had also sanctioned the judge over allegations of authorizing arbitrary pre-trial detentions and suppressing freedom of expression.
I dunno, but this smacks of extreme governmental overreach. Why in the world is our, the USA's, government directly interfering in Brazil's internal affairs? Too much projection of his own actions and consequences?