Former president Jair Bolsonaro asked Alexandre de Moraes for authorization to receive Donald Trump’s government advisor on matters related to Brazil on days that do not coincide with regular visit dates. Through his lawyers, Bolsonaro requests “exceptional” authorization, citing Darren Beattie’s restricted schedule as part of foreign diplomacy.
Bolsonaro suggested that the American politician be allowed to visit him in the Papudinha wing, where the former president is serving his sentence at the Papuda Penitentiary Complex, in Brasília, either on March 16th (a Monday) in the afternoon or March 17th (a Tuesday) in the morning or early afternoon. The dates do not coincide with the regular visiting days, which are Wednesdays and Saturdays.
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“In this specific case, this is an exceptional, punctual and previously scheduled request, motivated by the visitor’s restricted international agenda, without any harm to the organization of the custodian unit”, says the text of the petition from the Vilardi office.
Bolsonaro is serving a sentence of 27 years and three months in prison after being convicted by the STF for an alleged coup d’état that was intended to keep him in the presidency of the Republic.
Darren Beattie joined the US State Department in February. Critical of the Federal Supreme Court (STF) and, in particular, of Moraes, he has already called the magistrate the “main articulator, architect of the censorship and persecution complex” against Bolsonaro. Close to the Bolsonaros, Beattie met last year with former federal deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro, in the USA.
