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.
  • LSTNYER@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    12 days ago

    Criminals used to flee America. Now we’re importing them and giving them government jobs. I hate this timeline

  • KC_Royalz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    12 days ago

    If Dems win in a landslide house and Senate I forsee Trump fleeing on his Saudi gifted plane to Saudi Arabia

    • procesd@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      12 days ago

      Saudi Arabia is not very happy with being ignored when they asked for help to fight the Houthis. Twice. Moreso after all the “investment” they did into trump’s close circle

    • btsax@reddthat.comEnglish
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      12 days ago

      lol if dems win they’ll shrug and let it all go so the country can “heal”. Same thing happened after Watergate and Iran Contra. Rich people don’t face consequences here

      • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.todayEnglish
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        12 days ago

        You are behind the times. The Dems are making lots of plans to investigate MAGAs when they take over the House and Senate. Jeffries has already set up several committees, assuming he remains Speaker (I hope he gets replaced). The House Dems just released their report on Trump’s involvement in the Epstein Files, signaling that it will be a primary investigation.

        After Jan 6, I argued with MANY who said there would be no justice for the Insurrectionists, and yet, step by step, they eventually imprisoned well over 1000 Traitors. Trump later pardoned them, but the fact remains that those who assumed the Dems would do nothing were entirely wrong.

        And they’re wrong about this as well. I just watched an interview with a Dem member of Congress who said that we absolutely cannot go back to the old ways of doing things, if we expect to regain the trust of the rest of the world. He said we have to make major systemic changes, and rebuilding after MAGA gives us the perfect opportunity to remake the government properly.

        Your wish that MAGA gets away with their crimes will not come true.

        • btsax@reddthat.comEnglish
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          12 days ago

          “wish” lol, my only wish is democrats actually grow a spine one single time in the last 50 years

          Original comment was specifically about Trump anyway, he will never face consequences because dems are afraid of him and his followers. Otherwise he’d already be in prison for the insurrection. Or at the very least not allowed to run again because him being on the ballot directly violated the 14th amendment. Trump will pardon himself and issue a blanket pardon for all his henchmen and the dems will say “aw shucks well what are you gonna do?” or issue a strongly worded letter

        • ᴍᴜᴛɪʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴᴡᴀᴠᴇ @lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          12 days ago

          Where do we start with remaking the government properly? Remove the electoral college? End the two party system? Rewrite the Constitution? None of this is going to happen, and although I hope I’m wrong, I believe after one cycle of having Democrats in power the people will say they didn’t do shit and go right back to the Republicans.

    • SecretiveVault@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      11 days ago

      The Dems aren’t going to do shit. They’ll continue their insider trading and send a few really strongly worded tweets. Then they’ll go to his events and invite his family to their personal events. The rich protect the rich.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    12 days ago

    Wait until he plays “President in Exile” in the US until Trump installs him back home, Venezuela-style.

  • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    12 days ago

    With a private account holding the proceeds of stolen Venezuelan oil and a gift jet waiting for him in Qatar, I’m pretty sure the orange chancre is going to do the same if he makes it to 2028 or ever catches real charges, whichever comes first.

      • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        12 days ago

        He thinks he can run for a third term. While a third term is blatantly unconstitutional, and similar constitutional terms should have kept him off the ballot in 2024, he survived those legal challenges somehow and remained a candidate.

        But being a candidate is no guarantee of winning, and like both Bolsonaro senior and junior, the second he is not protected from prosecution by occupying elected office (which is itself legally questionable: the framers never wanted another king), his status becomes only that of a private citizen under multiple criminal investigations.

        Should he run again and lose – or even do the normal thing and walk away when his current term is over – he is looking at a lifetime of investigations, prosecutorial attempts at conviction, and legal fees that over time would add up to more than the national budget of some small countries (I’m not even joking).

        Only the presidency keeps him from that. If our democracy isn’t dead by then, the next US president will be elected in November 2028 and Trump will be out of office and out of time.

    • flango@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
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      12 days ago

      He is an asset of Trump (more specifically of Rubio) to destabilize Brazil’s democracy. He lost and now he is going to the US to ask asylum. Besides that, he’s a notorious corrupt politician and there are many criminal investigations that will proceed now that he’s close to losing parliamentary protection.

      • Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        12 days ago

        Sounds very similar to Ukraine back then. When Zelensky was voted for president, his biggest opponent was Putins puppet. He fled to Russia within a few days of his election loss.