Barroso calls Lula after Trump’s tariff and combines reaction strategy
The decision of the President of the United States Donald Trump to apply an additional 50% tax to Brazilian products under the pretext that the Brazilian Supreme Court is exceeding its limits, it will not take the court to judge former President Jair Bolsonaro.
To Estadão/Broadcast, court ministers said they would not be impressed whether US attacks on Brazil intensified as Bolsonaro’s trial, expected to take place between late August and early September. According to Supreme Ministers, this kind of pressure will not prevent the trial from being done.
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Trump also stated that the measure responds to a “very unfair trade relationship” with Brazil, classifying it as “far from being reciprocal”
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It is expected that the former president will be convicted of attempted coup. Bolsonaro is already ineligible by decision of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE).
This Wednesday, 9, the president of the Supreme, Minister Luís Roberto Barroso, talked with President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva about the international crisis opened from the tariff of Donald Trump imposed on Brazil. It was agreed that the members of the Court would not comment on the case. The task would fit Itamaraty.
Still, shortly after the US government announcement, STF Minister Flávio Dino posted on his personal Instagram account a message saying he was honored to belong to the court without quoting US pressure. “An honor to integrate the Federal Supreme Court, which seriously plays the function of protecting national sovereignty, democracy, rights and freedoms, all under the terms of the Constitution of Brazil and our laws,” he said.
Before Trump adopted the fiscal measures against Brazil, his management had already given signs that he was willing to apply sanctions on the Supreme Court. In May, the Secretary of State of the United States, Marco Rubio, announced that the country would restrict the entry of “foreign officials and accomplices in the censorship of Americans,” in a message to Minister Alexandre de Moraes.
