Trump claims Brazil election ‘looks rigged’
U.S. President Donald Trump did not congratulate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on his reelection and cast doubts on the integrity of the election after Lula’s right-wing opponent lost, The Telegraph reported on Oct. 26.
On October 26, President Donald Trump declared that Brazil's presidential election appeared "rigged," though he did not provide any evidence to back up his claim. The election was won by left-wing President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Speaking at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, Trump stated, "It looked like another rigged election, frankly...
Elections have to be indisputable, and it looked really bad to me." When asked if he would take any action regarding the election, Trump replied, "I am not running Brazil, I'm running the USA." Lula da Silva secured a fourth term, defeating his right-wing challenger Flávio Bolsonaro, who had previously been embraced by Trump and the MAGA movement.
Trump had also publicly supported his father, former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. Despite Trump's comments, a Brazilian official expressed confidence that the United States would eventually acknowledge Lula's victory, noting that the voting numbers were difficult to dispute. Lula had previously clashed with Trump over issues like tariffs, and his win elicited criticism from some Trump supporters, including Steve Bannon, who called for the US President and Secretary of State Marco Rubio to sever diplomatic ties with Brazil.
Lula vowed that dictatorship and fascism would never return to Brazil after his victory, declaring, "Democracy always, dictatorship never again. Democracy always, fascism never again."
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