Brazilian President Bolsonaro lost the election and ran away. Trump: I support him coming to the United States

Flavio, the son of Brazil’s right-wing former President Jair Bolsonaro. Flavio Bolsonaro fled the country on the 27th after losing the presidential election. U.S. President Trump said on the 28th that he supported Flavio's coming to the United States and once again questioned the "very strange" election in Brazil.

Reuters reported that after Trump concluded his campaign trip to Texas on the evening of the 27th, he returned to Washington in the early morning of the 28th. When asked about the matter by reporters at Joint Base Andrews, Trump said, "I would agree" and said that he had heard that Flavio was in Argentina. Trump referred to Brazil's presidential election as "very strange" and said, "I think it's terrible, and it's been poorly received, and look what's happened to their market."

"I didn't take sides," Trump said. "I knew Lula, I knew Flavio a little bit, and I knew his father very well," referring to former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. Trump once said that Bolsonaro's lawsuit in Brazil was judicial persecution. He said on the 28th that "his father was treated very badly," but "I did not intervene. That is Brazil, another country."

After Flavio lost the Brazilian presidential runoff on the 25th to leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who was seeking re-election, he refused to surrender his passport within 24 hours as required by the Brazilian Supreme Court and has not yet admitted his defeat. He is being investigated by Brazilian federal police for alleged money laundering, but has denied wrongdoing. Since his term as senator ends at the end of January next year, he will lose his immunity by then.

Senior officials from the U.S. State Department stated late at night on the 27th that they would issue visas to Flavio and his family and allow them to enter the United States.