No One Is Defying #Trump Like Brazil’s President
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of #Brazil during an interview with The New York Times on Tuesday at the Alvorada Palace in Brasília.
Faced with threats of 50% #tariffs & demands to end a #criminal case, President Luiz Inácio #Lula da Silva said he wouldn’t take orders from Trump.
#geopolitics #law
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Brazil’s President Lula Voices Frustration With Trump Amid Tariff Battle
Faced with threats of 50 percent tariffs and demands to end a criminal case, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said he wouldn’t take orders from President Trump.Jack Nicas (The New York Times)
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in reply to Nonilex • • •President Luiz Inácio #Lula da Silva of #Brazil is outraged.
#Trump is trying to push around his nation of 200 million, dangling 50% #tariffs as a #threat, Lula said in an interview. And yet, he added, the #US president is ignoring his government’s offers to talk.
“Be sure that we are treating this with the utmost seriousness. But seriousness does not require #subservience,” Lula said. “I treat everyone with great respect. But I want to be treated with #respect.”
#law #geopolitics
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in reply to Nonilex • • •#Lula granted his first interview to The NYT in 13 years on Tuesday, in part because he wanted to speak to the American people about his frustration with #Trump [we totally get it].
Trump has said that, starting on Friday, he plans to impose 50% #tariffs on Brazilian goods, in large part because Brazilian authorities have charged former President Jair #Bolsonaro with trying to hold on to #power after losing the 2022 election. [inspired by Trump 2020]
#law #geopolitics
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in reply to Nonilex • • •#Trump has called the case a “witch hunt” & wants it dropped. #Lula said that was not up for negotiation. “Maybe he doesn’t know that here in #Brazil, the #judiciary is #independent,” he said.
In the interview, Lula said that the American president is infringing on Brazil’s #sovereignty.
#law #geopolitics
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in reply to Nonilex • • •“At no point will #Brazil negotiate as if it were a small country up against a big country,” #Lula said. “We know the economic power of the #UnitedStates, we recognize the military power of the United States, we recognize the technological size of the United States.”
“But that doesn’t make us afraid,” he added. “It makes us concerned.”
There is perhaps no world leader defying #Trump as strongly as Lula.
#law #geopolitics
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in reply to Nonilex • • •The president of #Brazil — a leftist in his 3rd term who is arguably this century’s most important Latin American statesman — has been hitting back at #Trump in speeches across Brazil. His social media pages have suddenly become filled with references to Brazil’s #sovereignty. And he has taken to wearing a hat that says “Brazil belongs to Brazilians.”
#law #geopolitics
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in reply to Nonilex • • •On Tues, #Lula said that he was studying retaliatory #tariffs against #US exports if #Trump carries through with his threats. And he said that if the #Jan6, 2021, #insurrection at the US Capitol had happened in #Brazil, Trump would be facing prosecution just like #Bolsonaro.
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in reply to Nonilex • • •“The #democratic state of #law for us is a sacred thing,” #Lula said…. “Because we have already lived through #dictatorships, & we don’t want any more.”
#Trump has gone after #Brazil to come to the aid of his ally, #Bolsonaro. His proposed 50% #tariffs would be among the highest levies he has issued against any country, & they appear to be the only ones driven by overtly #political reasons & not #economic ones.
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in reply to Nonilex • • •#Trump has said that he sees his own legal fight in the #criminal trial against #Bolsonaro.
Trump & Bolsonaro — 2 #politicians with strikingly similar #political styles — both lost re-election & then both denied having lost. Their subsequent efforts to undermine the #vote culminated in mobs of their supporters storming their nations’ capital buildings, in failed bids to prevent the election winners from assuming the presidency.
#law #geopolitics #MafiaState
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in reply to Nonilex • • •The stark difference is that four years later, #Trump returned to power, while #Bolsonaro is now facing #prison. [Trump immediately used his reassumed #power to throw out the #criminal cases against him & to punish those involved — however peripherally.]
#law #geopolitics #MafiaState
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#LulaDaSilva and President #Macron are right:
"Be sure that we are treating this with the utmost seriousness. But seriousness does not require #subservience,” #Lula said. “I treat everyone with great respect. But I want to be treated with #respect.”
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in reply to Nonilex • • •especially the USA.
Good on him for telling Trump to piss off. can you imagine how mad MAGAworld would be if Brazil tries to tell the DOJ how to do business?