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11 months ago

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Martin De Luca

@emd_worldwide

11 months ago

The morning after the U.S. softened tariffs on Brazil — tariffs originally imposed partly because of the @jairbolsonaro witch hunt — Alexandre de Moraes escalated that witch hunt to an entirely new level. Today he threw Bolsonaro into preventive detention on reasoning so flimsy it borders on satire. His detention was justified on the basis of: • an unspecified “ankle monitor violation” with no evidence or explanation; • a peaceful vigil outside his home; • and — unbelievably — the fact that Bolsonaro lives 13 km from the U.S. Embassy. Yes. Moraes literally argued that because Bolsonaro lives a short drive from the American Embassy, he might try to flee there. As if the United States, which sanctioned Moraes for human rights abuses, would smuggle him out of Brazil. It is hard to imagine a more gratuitous insult to @realDonaldTrump and @SecRubio. Preventive detention in Brazil requires concrete evidence of flight risk, objective acts of obstruction, and a finding that no lesser measure would work. Moraes provided none. He simply described a hypothetical escape plot based on geography, speculation, and fear of a peaceful crowd. And he did it one day after the U.S. extended an olive branch on tariffs. The timing is defiant. Whether you support Bolsonaro or not, jailing a former president based on his driving distance from the U.S. Embassy is not the rule of law. It is bad faith. It is politics. And it is an extraordinary display of disrespect toward the Trump administration that acted in good faith just hours earlier. https://t.co/NVi3DpnKAM

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