US State Deputy criticizes Bolsonaro’s STF: ‘Political Farce’

United States Assistant Secretary of State, Ambassador Christopher Landau, said today that the lawsuit that found coup and that condemned former President of the Republic Jair Bolsonaro may be a “political scam.” The American was commented on a report by Folha de S.Paulo who claims that Supreme Court (STF) ministers said US President Donald Trump will bring Bolsonaro to Papuda if he increases sanctions against the country.

“If this report is true, it only confirms that the whole ‘judicial’ process in Brazil is a political scam,” Landau wrote, in a publication in the X. “Those who claim to be following the rule of law cannot increase the punishment of a criminal defendant due to the response of a third part to his decision. As Trump and Secretary of State, Marco Rubio highlighted by political witch and will not be determined. for judicial threats, “he concluded.

In the report, the vehicle states that Supreme Magistrates see unfeasibility of any distinctive treatment to Bolsonaro with a possible increase in sanctions to the country by the Trump government. No specific minister has been cited.