In Trump’s playbook, however, Brazil is in a category of its own. Citing the prosecution of Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s last president, Trump earlier this month vowed 50 per cent tariffs on the western hemisphere’s second largest democracy unless it cancelled the strongman’s trial. A few days later, Marco Rubio, US secretary of state, slapped a US visa ban on Brazil’s supreme court justice, Alexandre de Moraes, who is presiding over Bolsonaro’s hearing.

Trump – Emperor of Brazil
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