Trump Team Arranged Private Jet to Help Bolsonaro Flee Brazil
Trump personally helped failed right-wing Brazilian presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro flee to the United States, according to a new report in The New York Times.
Bolsonaro, who would have faced multiple criminal investigations if he stayed in Brazil, landed in Miami Wednesday after losing Brazil’s presidential election to incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
But he wouldn’t have made it without the Trump administration’s help.
Bolsonaro and his family were able to come to the United States on a special kind of parole usually reserved for
“urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit,”
after he apparently showed Homeland Security an expired diplomatic passport.
His next step will be applying for a green card, a process which an administration official said will be fast-tracked in a manner similar to his brother Eduardo, who was granted permanent residency last year.
Bolsonaro flew from Argentina to Ecuador before finally landing in Miami—and he did it all on a private jet handled by Jason Miller, a White House communications official, an unnamed administration official told the Times
https://newrepublic.com/post/217350/trump-team-arranged-private-jet-help-bolsonaro-flee-brazil
