Trump realized that Magnitsky would not make Brazil to give in, says expert

Trump realized, however, that this strategy will have no effect, which is why he came to the point where he was convinced that he needed to retreat from the needs of the American economy itself. Therefore, the application of the law has no correlation with the negotiation.

If Americans put the magnitsky law as an instrument for negotiation, it will not work. Brazil will not give in to any circumstances because one thing is not correlated to another. They imagined that this correlation would force Brazil to a retreat on the supreme issue or to make an early concession. Brazil did not do any of these two things.

In my assessment, the minister himself has the right to protest in the appropriate forums, either in the context of international courts or in the American court itself as to the applicability of the law. Hussein Kalout, CEBRI International Counselor

For Kalout, the application of the magnitsky law against Moraes makes the international community increase its distrust of US policies.

I do not know the microdetallets of the absolute consequences of the law and how far it can actually immobilize the financial life (from Moraes), but this is very bad for the US because there is great distortion in the applicability of this law itself.

For the first time, this law is applied to a democratic state, a democratic power constituted and a legal process that has not yet become final, whose defendant still has the right to free defense and the right to contradictory.