Jair Bolsonaro’s son says he will seek political asylum in the United States

Eduardo Bolsonaro, a member of the Brazilian Congress and the son of former President Gere Bolsonaro, said on Tuesday that he would seek political asylum in the United States, claiming that he was the goal of persecution to defend the right -wing movement embodied by his father.

He was the third eldest son of the former Brazilian president in the United States since late February, just as the Brazil Supreme Court began the weight of his passport for accusing him of trying to interfere in the case related to his father’s alleged role in a coup plot after the older man lost the 2022 elections.

Mr. Bolsonaro, 40, said at A video clip posted on Medi SocialA, he intends to stay in the United States and retract his role as a federal legislator. Mr. Bolsonaro has close ties with the Trump family and visited President Trump in Mar Lago, his home in Florida and his club.

Mr. Bolsonaro also condemned the judge of the Supreme Court, Alexander de Mora, to target him. Judge De Morais was overseeing the criminal case against Gear Bolsonaro.

“If Alexander de Morais wants to seize my passport or even arrest me so that I cannot report his crimes in the United States, then this is exactly where I will stay and work hard more than ever.”

After the video was published, the Brazilian public prosecutor said he was not seeking the passport of Mr. Bolsonaro.

Mr. Bolsonaro did not explain when he would ask for asylum. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The announcement of Mr. Bolsonaro a few days before the Brazil’s Supreme Court is to decide whether his father will be subject to a trial of concern to supervising a widespread conspiracy to sabotage the nation’s democracy after the 2022 elections, Who lost it.

Brazilian prosecutors say the plot included plans to cancel the vote, the courts and assassinate President Luise Lula Da Silva, who won the vote. Mr. Bolsonaro has given the older accusations of politically motivated.

Eduardo Bolsonaro said that his father is at risk of “imprisonment unresolved” by the Supreme Court, which has long been considered an enemy by the conservative movement of Brazil, and he parallel between his father and Mr. Trump to legal problems.

He said in the video: “I have no doubt that our enemies plan is his imprisonment, his assassination in prison or left there forever, as he would have happened with Donald Trump if he was not elected in 2024.”

Mr. Trump Media Company Filed a lawsuit against Judge Morris He accused him of illegally monitoring the right -wing voices on social media.