‘US President should take care of his problems,’ says Gleisi after Trump’s post in defense of Bolsonaro

Lula’s minister said Trump should respect Brazilian sovereignty and not try to interfere with the judiciary. American said Bolsonaro is chase. Gleisi Hoffmann during a ceremony with Lula on February 25, 2025 Ton Molina/PhotoAna/Estadão Content The Minister of Institutional Relations, Gleisi Hoffmann, said on Monday (7) that US President Donald Trump should take care of his country’s problems and not try to interfere with the Brazilian court proceedings. Responsible for the government’s political articulation, Gleisi gave the statement after Trump published on his social network a post in defense of Jair Bolsonaro (PL). “Donald Trump is very wrong if he thinks he can interfere with the Brazilian judicial process. The time when Brazil was subservient to the US was Bolsonaro’s time, which contained its flag and did not defend national interests,” said the minister. Gleisi stressed that Bolsonaro responds “for the crimes he committed against democracy and the electoral process in Brazil”. The minister disagrees that Bolsonaro is the target of persecution. “One cannot speak of persecution when a sovereign country fulfills due process of law in the democratic rule of law that Bolsonaro and his scammers have tried to destroy,” he said. Gleisi also stated that Trump should respect Brazilian sovereignty. “The US president should take care of his own problems, which are not few, and respect the sovereignty of Brazil and our judiciary,” said the minister. Trump Trump’s publication defends Bolsonaro on social networks Trump used social networks on Monday (7) to post a post in defense of Bolsonaro. In the Social Truth, the Republican wrote that Bolsonaro is the target of persecution. Trump said Brazil is doing “something terrible” in the treatment given to the former president, who is a defendant in the Supreme Court (STF) for attempted coup d’état after losing the elections to Lula (PT) in 2022. Not to directly mention lawsuits against Bolsonaro, Trump said he will closely monitor what happens in Brazil and that the former president “is not guilty.” In two judgments in 2023, the Superior Electoral Court made former President Jair Bolsonaro ineligible for 8 years for abuse of political power and misuse of media. The Electoral Justice understood that the meeting with foreign ambassadors at the Dawn Palace had electoral use. At the meeting, Bolsonaro made statements without evidence about the Brazilian electoral system. The meeting, which took place in July 2022, was broadcast on the government’s official TV. Bolsonaro is a defendant for attempted coup in March, the first class of the Supreme Court (STF) unanimously decided to defend the former president and seven allies for coup attempt in 2022. The five ministers voted to accept the complaint presented by the Attorney General’s Office (PGR). On June 10, Bolsonaro gave testimony. He denied the main charges, sought to contextualize meetings with military, admitted exaggerations in rhetoric against the electoral system and said he had no involvement with illegal plans. On June 27, the criminal action that investigates the participation of the political and operational core in the coup plot to keep Bolsonaro in power advanced to the final phase in the STF. Minister Alexandre de Moraes, rapporteur of the case, ended the so -called procedural instruction phase and determined the opening of the final allegations, in which the parties – prosecution and defenses – may submit the last considerations before the trial. To date, 497 people have been convicted by the Supreme Court for an attempted coup d’état in 2022. Most were considered guilty of the crimes of violent abolition of the Democratic Rule of Law, qualified damage, coup d’état, deterioration of overturned heritage and criminal association. Eight people were acquitted.

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