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Trump announces 50 percent tariff on Brazil, citing Bolsonaro trial

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Look, another nail!

Trump admin live updates: Trump threatens 100% tariffs on Russia


Trump ... threatened to impose "very severe tariffs" on Russia if there was no peace deal with Ukraine within 50 days.
Hey member this:

Russia not on Trump's tariff list


One country that did not feature on Donald Trump's list of tariffs on US trade partners was Russia.
US outlet Axios quoted White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt as saying this was because existing US sanctions on Russia "preclude any meaningful trade" and noting that Cuba, Belarus and North Korea were also not included.



What’s 100% of zero?
 
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Hey member this:

Russia not on Trump's tariff list

What’s 100% of zero?
Exactly, why would you care about a threat that doesn't really harm you?

Russia 'didn’t care' about Trump's weapons for Ukraine, tariff threats, official says

Russia continued its nightly bombardment of Ukraine overnight into Tuesday, shortly after President Donald Trump announced his decision to supply Ukraine with new military equipment and White House threats of further economic measures against Moscow.

Dmitry Medvedev -- -- the former Russian president and prime minister now serving as the deputy chairman of the country's Security Council -- was more forthright, writing on social media that the Kremlin was unmoved by what he called Trump's "theatrical ultimatum."

"The world shuddered, expecting the consequences," wrote Medvedev, who during Moscow's full-scale war on Ukraine has become known as a particularly hawkish voice within Putin's security establishment. "Belligerent Europe was disappointed. Russia didn't care."

I think the usual step would be targeted sanctions of some sort. But Trump's favorite hammer is tariffs...
The US has negligible imports from Russia, which account for around 0.2% of U.S. imports, according to Census Bureau data.

Trump said during an Oval Office meeting with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte on Monday that he would impose "severe tariffs" -- though it was not entirely clear if the president was referring to tariffs, sanctions or both


Aw, let's give him the benefit of the doubt that he knew what he was talking about, but couldn't quite find the right words for it.
 
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Brazil has done what America failed to do: Hold their former president accountable. Naturally, the American president cries "witch hunt" and issued an illegal tariff.

Brazil’s Supreme Court on Thursday convicted former President Jair Bolsonaro of overseeing a failed conspiracy to overturn the 2022 Brazilian election in a coup plot that included disbanding courts, empowering the military and assassinating the president-elect.

Four of the five justices weighing the case voted to convict Mr. Bolsonaro and seven co-conspirators, including his running mate, defense minister and Navy commander, in a forceful rebuke by one of the very institutions the men sought to overthrow.

Mr. Bolsonaro, 70, was sentenced to 27 years and three months in prison, though his lawyers are likely to request house arrest because of his health problems.
 
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Now Sec. of State Rubio is issuing threats over Bolsonaro's conviction. Way weird.



"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?
 
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Now Sec. of State Rubio is issuing threats over Bolsonaro's conviction. Way weird.



"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?
So much for Rubio being the adult in the room.

I’m still waiting for other posters to chime in about this blatant interference into another country’s government.
 
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....the irony of a Latin American country showing the United States of America how to act like a democratic country where the rule of law is followed.
 
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