Donald Trump seems ready to do anything to defend his ally Jair Bolsonaro. Wednesday, July 30, the Department of the US Treasury announced new sanctions against judge Alexandre de Moraes, in charge of the trial for attempted coup against the far -right president from 2019 to 2022. Accused of leading a “Witch hunt” By Washington, the judge, already prohibited from entry into the United States since July 18, now sees his assets frozen in American territory and it is forbidden to carry out financial transactions with American citizens and companies.
A few hours later, the President of the United States also signed an emergency decree to implement the taxation of customs duties of 50 % on products imported from Brazil, as he announced on July 9. Qualifying Brazil as “Unusual and extraordinary threat to national security, economics and foreign policy of the United States”Donald Trump finally excluded 694 products from the measure, which should not come into force until August 6, five days later than the date initially planned.
However, these new reprisals have not flexed the Brazilian government. On X, President Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva hastened to defend the sovereignty of Brazil and display his support for Judge Alexandre de Moraes. “Brazil is a sovereign and democratic country, which respects human rights and the independence of powers ; It is unacceptable that the American government will interfere in Brazilian justice ”he said on Wednesday. Earlier in the day, before the announcement of the decree, the president of Brazil had also called his American counterpart, in an interview with New York Timesnot to be “Mix everything” : “If he wants to have a political argument, then let’s deal with this as a political argument. If he wants to talk about trade, let us sit and discuss trade. »»
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