{"id":898991,"date":"2026-10-29T17:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T17:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/898991\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T17:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T17:46:11","slug":"bolsonaro-says-he-did-not-flee-brazil-after-arriving-in-us-following-election-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/898991\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolsonaro says he &#8216;did not flee Brazil&#8217; after arriving in US following election loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI (TNND)  \u2014 Brazilian presidential candidate Fl\u00e1vio Bolsonaro, who <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationaldesk.com\/news\/americas-news-now\/lula-wins-brazil-reelection-as-flavio-bolsonaro-seeks-to-annul-results-polling-votes-us-influence-latin-america-trump-critic-security-cost-of-living#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">lost Sunday\u2019s election<\/a>, thanked Argentina\u2019s government and President Donald Trump on Wednesday for helping him leave Brazil and reach the United States safely.<\/p>\n<p>Video and photos showed Bolsonaro and his family arriving at Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport in Florida shortly after 9 a.m. He left Brazil after losing to President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva.<\/p>\n<p>Bolsonaro called for the results to be annulled, citing extended voting at some polling places.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven the political weaponization of justice in Brazil, I brought my family to the United States, where we are safe,\u201d Bolsonaro said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FlavioBolsonaro\/status\/2115544562219315474\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did not flee Brazil. I left Brazil \u2014 left a state of exception \u2014 so I could be the leader my people deserve,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>A senior State Department official said the U.S. would issue visas to Bolsonaro and his family and allow them to enter the country. The official spoke anonymously because of visa privacy laws.<\/p>\n<p>Bolsonaro is under investigation by Brazil\u2019s Supreme Court in two cases involving allegations of corruption, money laundering and tax evasion. In one, he is accused of using a sports betting company to launder fraudulent deductions from government pensions paid to senior citizens. In the other, he is accused of accepting millions of dollars from a disgraced banker.<\/p>\n<p>Bolsonaro has denied wrongdoing in both cases. He has also claimed that Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who is leading one investigation, is an ally of Lula.<\/p>\n<p>Bolsonaro has touted his relationship with Trump and visited the White House in May. Trump did not fully endorse him in the runoff, but on Monday suggested, without providing evidence, that Brazil\u2019s election was \u201crigged.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Trump declined to say who he believed won the election but acknowledged the U.S. had allowed Bolsonaro to enter the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I won\u2019t get involved. It was a very strange election, that\u2019s for sure,\u201d Trump told reporters. <\/p>\n<p>Asked why Bolsonaro and his family were granted visas, Trump said he thought they had been \u201ctreated very unfairly.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI (TNND) \u2014 Brazilian presidential candidate Fl\u00e1vio Bolsonaro, who lost Sunday\u2019s election, thanked Argentina\u2019s government and President Donald&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":898992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-898991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=898991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/898992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}