‘I am not Trump’s bullshit’, but ‘I’m safe in the USA’

“I am safe because I am in the United States, unreachable to the clutches of Moraes,” added the deputy, who was not investigated when he decided to leave Brazil, but currently faces inquiry by the Attorney General’s Office for possible coercion against Brazilian authorities, what he says is “political persecution.”

Since Trump’s inauguration, Eduardo has made intense managers in Washington, visiting congressmen offices, state department officials and White House assistants to convince them to take action against Moraes, a rapporteur of criminal and electoral cases against former President Jair Bolsonaro and other exponents of pockets.

In the last carnival, Eduardo moved with his family to Texas to dedicate herself to negotiating sanctions and is officially licensed from her mandate in the House of Representatives. On Tuesday, without citing him nominally, Lula used a press conference at the Planalto Palace to comment for the first time the parliamentarian’s actions in American territory.

“What is unfortunate is that a Brazilian deputy, the son of a former president, is there to call the United States to get in the internal politics of Brazil. This is what is serious. It is a terrorist practice, antipatriotic,” said Lula, who followed:

“A deputy asks for his mandate for trying to lick Trump’s and Trump’s advisor, asking for intervention in Brazilian internal politics. So it is not possible. This, yes, is disrespect to Brazil. This is provocation.”

Lula’s demonstration takes place at a time of escalation of tension between Brasilia and Washington around the possibility of sanctions of the magnitsky law against the Brazilian judge. American law provides heavy financial and territorial restrictions.