Flávio Bolsonaro's Miami Departure and Brazil's Election

Ted, what's your reaction to Flavio Bol- Bolsonaro of

fleeing to Miami? Oh, boy. This, this I find disturbing.

It is.

I don't know that much about the Bra- Bra- Brazilian election.

I know his father ran.

Yep.

His father tried to do a Trump, and they put him in jail for it,

and I remember T-

doing a whole thing here about I admire Brazil for doing the right thing there.

But this is his son. He lost the election. He thought he was gonna win.

Yep.

And then the next day he's on a plane to Miami. I don't wanna see...

What I'm saying is I don't wanna see this come here.

I don't wanna see a guy loses an election-

Yeah

... and he has to get out of the country

because he's gonna be arrested.

Right.

Now, maybe this guy deserves to be arrested,

but I don't know.

You, this is dangerous stuff that I see possibly coming here.

Yeah, look, Lula, who's the current president,

is a communist who hates

America. And he, and, and he, by the way, I'm not putting words in his mouth.

That's what he says. He ran as a communist who hates America.

Bolsonaro, what did, what did Lula do when he came in?

He locked up his predecessor. You say, "Well,

that's great 'cause he did something

wrong." I think he just threw his predecessor in jail 'cause that's what

Latin

American dictators do. I understand why the son got out of town,

because with Lula coming back, I think he had every reason to think he'd

come lock

him in jail. And, and I will say one of the fascinating data

points,

beginning of the Trump administration, they cut 83% of the funding to

USAID. Do you know what happened after that?

Seven consecutive elections in Latin America,

every one of them, the pro-America, more conservative candidate won, and

the anti-America Marxist candidate lost, which raises a pretty

strong inference that that money was funding the candidates who hate

America.

This was the one exception. This was the eighth election,

and this one went the

other way.

Interesting.

But prior to that, it was... And by the way, among others,

the New York Times has

written about how this is unprecedented, this shift towards

pro-America, free market candidates.

I, I want leaders of other countries to like

America and not hate America.