The former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro This Saturday he regretted the ban on traveling to the United States to attend the inauguration of the American president-elect, donald trumpto the point that he cried at the airport and denounced that he is a “political prisoner.”
Bolsonaro has accompanied his wife, Michelle Bolsonaroto the Brasilia Airport where she has left for the United States with a view to attending the inauguration ceremony next Monday, but Bolsonaro has appeared before the press to complain of “persecution.”
The judge of Alexandre de Moraes Federal Supreme Court withdrew Bolsonaro’s passport in February in relation to the investigation into his involvement in the attempted coup d’état of January 8, 2023. Bolsonaro has requested to travel to Washington for the inauguration, but the request has been rejected on the grounds that It’s just a “personal interest.”
“Obviously it would be very good for me to go there. president trump He would like it very much, since it was he who invited me. “I am upset, shocked, but I am facing enormous political persecution by one person,” Bolsonaro declared, according to the newspaper ‘O Globo’.
Bolsonaro has assured that he is a “political prisoner” and has referred to speculation about the possible installation of an electronic monitoring anklet, which would be “humiliating.”
“I am a political prisoner despite being without an electronic anklet. I hope that your excellency does not want to put it on me to humiliate me with the electronic anklet. It is shameful. I would like to accompany my wife, (but) my son Eduardo and his wife will accompany her. I wanted be there. I had arranged meetings with heads of state through Eduardo Bolsonaro, but unfortunately I will not be able to be there,” he explained.
The former Brazilian president has highlighted that the invitation comes from Trump himself and that “he invited me because he is certain that he can collaborate with democracy in Brazil.”
