Brazilian Senator Flávio Bolsonaro has left Brazil for the United States after losing Sunday’s presidential election to leftist incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and failing to comply with a Supreme Court order to surrender his passports, according to reports from and CNN Brasil. reported, citing two sources, that Bolsonaro, an ally of President Donald Trump, had left the country for the U.S., while CNN Brasil reported that his whereabouts were unknown after he failed to turn over his passports Tuesday. A source close to Bolsonaro told CNN Brasil that the senator was flying to the United States, although it remained unclear how he left Brazil or where in the U.S. he was headed. Bolsonaro had been favored to win Sunday’s presidential election.
On Monday, he was given 24 hours to surrender his passports as part of a money-laundering investigation in which he denies wrongdoing. Two sources told that the deadline passed without Bolsonaro complying, prompting authorities to cancel his travel documents. His departure comes after President Trump called Bolsonaro’s election defeat “rigged.” “Well, it looked terrible to me.
I thought it was a terrible look,” Trump told reporters Monday at Joint Base Andrews. And it looked very bad to me. I didn’t endorse anybody or anything, but I watched the election.
It looked so corrupt and so terrible.” Trump also questioned how the vote was counted and described a two-hour extension of voting ordered by Brazil’s Supreme Court as “very strange." Newsweek has reached out to the U.S. State Department and the Embassy of Brazil in Washington, D.C. via email for comment. This is a breaking news article.
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