{"id":4601,"date":"2025-01-08T15:19:58","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T15:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/bolsonaro-wants-his-passport-back-to-attend-trumps-inauguration\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T15:19:58","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T15:19:58","slug":"bolsonaro-wants-his-passport-back-to-attend-trumps-inauguration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/bolsonaro-wants-his-passport-back-to-attend-trumps-inauguration\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolsonaro wants his passport back to attend Trump&#8217;s inauguration"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>President-elect Donald Trump has invited Jair Bolsonaro to his upcoming inauguration, but the former Brazilian president may not be able to attend \u2014 he surrendered his passport to authorities while under investigation for allegedly helping plan and participate in a 2023 coup attempt in an effort to remain in office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy lawyer, Dr. Paulo Bueno, has already forwarded a request to Minister Alexandre de Moraes for me to have my passport returned so that I can attend this honorable and important historical event,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jairbolsonaro\/status\/1876967301649502389\" target=\"_blank\">Bolsonaro wrote on X in Portuguese<\/a> Wednesday, the two-year anniversary of the Jan. 8 coup attempt.<\/p>\n<p>A week after the inauguration of current President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva, pro-Bolsonaro supporters stormed and ransacked government buildings in Brasilia, which has led to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/07\/06\/the-dizzying-array-of-legal-threats-to-brazils-former-president-jair-bolsonaro-00166690\" target=\"_blank\">slew of legal issues<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/politico-nightly\/2023\/01\/09\/the-american-politics-of-brazils-insurrection-00077131\" target=\"_blank\">comparisons to the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol<\/a> as Brazil\u2019s Federal Police accuse Bolsonaro of involvement in the scheme. The former president has denied any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>In a video attached to Bolsonaro\u2019s post on X, his son draws those same comparisons. \u201cDonald Trump certainly identifies himself with Jair Bolsonaro in this sense because he was a victim of it in the United States,\u201d Eduardo Bolsonaro said in Portuguese, according to a translation attached to the video.<\/p>\n<p>Bolsonaro and Trump have a long history dating back to Trump\u2019s first term in office <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2019\/03\/19\/bolsonaro-brazil-trump-visit-1227573\" target=\"_blank\">when Trump invited the right-wing leader<\/a> to the Oval Office to discuss toppling Venezuela\u2019s Nicol\u00e1s Maduro. Trump and Bolsonaro both sparked loyalist conservative movements within their countries, Bolsonaro brought Trump\u2019s \u201cfake news\u201d slogan to Brazil, and Trump frequently urged Brazilians to support Bolsonaro when he was up for reelection.<\/p>\n<p><i>Aitor Hern\u00e1ndez-Morales contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect Donald Trump has invited Jair Bolsonaro to his upcoming inauguration, but the former Brazilian president may not be able to attend \u2014 he surrendered his passport to authorities while under investigation for allegedly helping plan and participate in a 2023 coup attempt in an effort to remain in office. \u201cMy lawyer, Dr. Paulo Bueno, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}