President Donald Trump and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro attend a joint news conference in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington on March 19, 2019. Chris Kleponis-Pool/Getty Images
President Donald Trump amped up the pressure on the Brazilian government on Wednesday and urged it to drop charges against former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, saying that he will be watching the case “closely.”
In a letter directed to Bolsonaro posted on Truth Social on Thursday, Trump said that Bolsonaro has faced “terrible treatment” at the “hands of an unjust system turned against you.”
