Senator Flávio Bolsonaro heads to US following Brazil election loss
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Brazilian senator Flávio Bolsonaro has left Brazil and is headed to the United States after losing Sunday’s presidential election, two sources have confirmed to CNN.
A US official told CNN that Bolsonaro is currently flying to Florida. It is unclear how he left Brazil.
A Brazilian source close to Bolsonaro said that the politician had feared arrest in Brazil, where he is under investigation by the country’s highest court for alleged acts of corruption, money laundering and currency evasion. Bolsonaro denies all wrongdoing.
Speculation about his movements mounted after Argentine news outlet Infobae reported that Bolsonaro had left Brazil via Argentina after losing Sunday’s runoff presidential election against leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The Argentine government said in a statement that it has “no record of Flávio Bolsonaro entering” the country.
Brazil’s Federal Police has canceled Bolsonaro’s passports and are currently searching for him, CNN Brasil reports.
Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered Bolsonaro to turn in his passports within 24 hours on Monday. CNN has reached out to Bolsonaro, his political party and the Brazilian Federal Police for comment on the senator’s whereabouts.
Bolsonaro said Brazilian police had informed him of the order in person and told him he was banned from leaving Brazil. In a video posted to Instagram, the senator denied that he intended to flee.Bolsonaro joins a large community of Brazilian conservatives in exile – including former Brazilian intelligence chief Alexandre Ramagem, podcaster Paulo Figueiredo, and his own brother Eduardo, who lives in Texas.
Eduardo suggested shortly before the runoff election that Flávio ought to leave Brazil if his bid for the presidency failed. On Tuesday, Eduardo called rumors that his brother had fled a “lie.”
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Lose an election...run for your life.....
He wants Trump to adopt him.
Trump loves his criminals, so he'll probably deny any extradition requests for Bolsonaro. Maybe even put him up somewhere on tax payer money.
... like mar-a-lardo, on the foreign criminal candidate, all inclusive vacation plan that comes with a family visa.
Shouldn't ICE be waiting at the airport to send him to an El Salvadorean prison?
Nah, he's a corrupt politician so Trump considers him as American as apple pie.
Probably make him the next press secretary...
And he's white
Or Secretary of Homeland security.
Smart to flee a banana republic while you get a chance.
something trmp should consider....
The only thing Trump was smart about was telling all the bigoted morons in our country what they wanted to hear. Of course, he's broken all his promises, but he never intended to keep them anyway because he knew who he was lying to; the dumbest most gullible fucking idiots in the nation.
I wouldn't put it past Trump to pull off another move like he did with Venezuala's Maduro, grabbing Luna da Silva and kidnapping him back to America to face TRUMPed up charges.