{"id":816112,"date":"2026-10-28T03:26:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T03:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/816112\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T03:26:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T03:26:14","slug":"flavio-bolsonaro-flees-brazil-after-election-loss-us-says-will-grant-visa-donald-trump-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/816112\/","title":{"rendered":"Flavio Bolsonaro flees Brazil after election loss, US says will grant visa | Donald Trump News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The media reports come a day after Supreme Court ordered Bolsonaro hand over passport as part of money laundering probe.<\/p>\n

Published On 27 Oct 202627 Oct 2026<\/p>\n

A senior US State Department official said the Trump administration will issue visas to Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro and his family, allowing them to enter the US after news outlets reported that Bolsonaro fled Brazil after losing the country\u2019s presidential election<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The news came on Tuesday, one day after Brazil\u2019s Supreme Court ordered Bolsonaro<\/a> to turn over his passports as part of a probe into alleged money laundering. Bolsonaro has denied any wrongdoing and said on Monday that he had \u201cnever thought about leaving the country\u201d and would stay to lead the opposition.<\/p>\n

Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list<\/p>\n

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva<\/a>, who has previously accused members of the Bolsonaro family of courting US interference in Brazilian affairs for their political benefit<\/a>, called the right-wing senator\u2019s actions shameful and said he should have stayed in the country to prove his innocence.<\/p>\n

\u201cA person who sneaks out of their country must have something to hide,\u201d Lula said in the capital, Brasilia, during his 81st birthday celebration, adding that Brazil is the Bolsonaro family\u2019s \u201csecond country\u201d while the US is their first.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe act of leaving Brazil is shameful.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bolsonaro, the son of former right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro, initially refused to acknowledge the election results and said he would seek their annulment. His party released a statement on Monday saying it accepted<\/a> the results of the election, which the conservative candidate lost by more than 4.4 million votes.<\/p>\n

US President Donald Trump reacted by casting doubt on the election result, telling reporters it \u201clooked like another rigged election\u201d.<\/p>\n

No evidence has emerged that the vote was marred by malfeasance. While critics seized on a last-minute decision to extend polling hours, Lula\u2019s eventual victory was commanding, and the extension was unlikely to change the outcome.<\/p>\n

Democratic Representative Joaquin Castro said that Trump should tell the US Congress whether his administration played a role in Bolsonaro\u2019s exit from Brazil.<\/p>\n

\u201cLosing an election is not grounds for asylum. Yet the Trump Administration is giving Flavio Bolsonaro safe haven in the United States. In Brazil, he is under investigation for alleged corruption, money laundering and currency evasion, and was ordered to surrender his passports,\u201d Castro said in a social media post.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Trump Administration owes Congress answers on its role helping Bolsonaro flee Brazil in contravention of Brazilian law.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bolsonaro\u2019s younger brother, Eduardo, who lives in the US and was convicted in absentia in June for illegally lobbying the Trump administration, said during a podcast interview earlier this month that Flavio should leave Brazil if he were to lose the race.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf my brother does not win, I\u2019m in favour that he would leave the country,\u201d he told podcaster Steven Crowder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The media reports come a day after Supreme Court ordered Bolsonaro hand over passport as part of money…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":816113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[141,49,50,51,47,52,48,158,3544,187800],"class_list":["post-816112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-donald-trump","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-united-states","tag-us-canada","tag-us-midterm-elections-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/816113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}