Flavio Bolsonaro and family to receive U.S. visas after fleeing Brazil following election loss
www.nbcnews.com
President Donald Trump told reporters on Wednesday that he would approve of Bolsonaro coming to the United States. “I think they’re fine people. The election was very strange, and I thought it was terrible. It’s gotten bad reviews. You look at what happened to their market”, Trump said.
  • Swemg@lemmy.world
    10 days

    Nothing says “I’m legitimate” more than fleeing your country after a botched frauded election

    • Aeder@lemmy.world
      10 days

      He’s fleeing because winning the election was the only way to extend his immunity to prosecution. He has a bunch of pending cases regarding corruption, tax evasion, a financing scandal, and money laundering.

      • Rothe@piefed.socialEnglish
        10 days

        And millions of voters looked at him and thought “Yup, that’s my guy!”.

      • FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca
        10 days

        And, like in the Untied States, I’m bewildered at the asinine system that allows getting elected to be a viable way to avoid prosecution

  • BuckFutter@timeyak.com
    10 days

    Why do all these failed wanna be dictators end up fleeing to the US and end up being greeted in Florida? Its almost like there is a pipeline of shitty people coming and going from the state…

    • flandish@lemmy.world
      10 days

      because he’s a fascist criminal and the US is run by them. So he’ll prob run for office somewhere here.

  • Corvidae@lemmy.world
    10 days

    Flávio’s departure defies an order by Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes prohibiting the defeated candidate from leaving the country and instructing him to surrender his passports. The ruling is connected to an investigation into Flávio’s alleged participation in a money-laundering scheme. (He’s also being investigated as part of a probe into the financing of a biopic of his father.) By Tuesday morning, the younger Bolsonaro had missed the deadline to hand over his travel documents, and the Brazilian federal police were looking into whether he had left the country via Argentina.

    He’s not yet a US immigrant, but it appears he violated laws by leaving Brazil.

  • Hegar@fedia.io
    10 days

    Fascist fraudster flavio flees fearing fetters? Fantastic!

  • zoloftt@lemmy.world
    10 days

    He already planned to leave… Probably knowing he’d be convicted of something…

  • ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip
    10 days

    My policy on immigrants and ICE has suddenly changed in a way I could never have anticipated.

  • iamnotme@feddit.uk
    10 days

    I’ve seen another story saying he was ordered to hand in his passport and he said he was going to comply.

    • bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      10 days

      He is probably being pedantic, and meant he’d hand in his passport to US customs agents

    • athairmor@lemmy.world
      10 days

      Well, if you read the article, he didn’t hand them in and they were canceled. Also:

      A senior Brazilian Federal Police official said Bolsonaro has not exited the country via any regular migration point.

      Probably, took off on someone’s private yacht or something like that.

      • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
        10 days

        They say he crossed over land to Argentina and had a plane waiting there to take him to the US, but bailed on the last part (at least with that particular plane) when the plot was revealed.