Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and former US President and new candidate in this year’s US presidential election Donald Trump spoke via video for several minutes, federal lawmaker Julia Zanatta, an ally of Brazil, said on social media. The contact was brokered by one of Bolsonaro’s sons, Eduardo Bolsonaro, who dined with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, his Florida home, and is part of the former Brazilian president’s efforts to demonstrate his international prestige and that he is not isolated amid a wave of accusations and lawsuits in Brazilian courts.
“It was a quick conversation. Trump helped Brazil a lot when he granted it non-NATO ally status, and Brazil began purchasing cheap military equipment from the United States,” Jair Bolsonaro said after publishing a conversation with Trump, praising the proposed military assistance. but not bearing in mind the fact that the North American, when he was President, taxed certain products and goods from Brazil in order to protect the agriculture and industry of his country.
Eduardo Bolsonaro, re-elected as a federal deputy from Sao Paulo in 2022 and whom Donald Trump considers one of the most promising figures on the world’s far right, has been in the United States for several days. During this period, he met with North American ultra-conservative leaders and published photographs, mainly next to Trump, who a few days ago received a total of 1,215 delegates needed for the Republican Party’s nomination for the presidency of the United States. in July, facing incumbent President Joe Biden, who will seek re-election as the Democratic nominee.
“I took advantage of the conversation and wished him good luck in the elections, and if everything goes well, I will go to his inauguration this year if I have a passport,” added Jair Bolsonaro, who is not eligible to participate in elections until 2030. alluding to the fact that the Supreme Federal Court confiscated his passport in February last year as part of a process in which he is suspected of staging a coup in 2022 to stay in power after losing the Brazilian presidential election that year Lule da Silva. .