Trump says he would have approved Flavio Bolsonaro's US entry, calls Brazil election 'strange'
US President Donald Trump said he would have approved Senator Flavio Bolsonaro's entry into the United States, calling him and his family "good people," while again criticizing Brazil's presidential election process as "strange" and "terrible." Trump made the remarks early Wednesday, hours after an aide confirmed he authorized the senator's entry following Bolsonaro's election defeat. Brazilian authorities had ordered Flavio to surrender his passport Monday, and federal police canceled both his regular and diplomatic passports after he failed to comply. Flavio Bolsonaro arrived in the US with his wife and daughters, fearing arrest in Brazil amid investigations into alleged corruption, money laundering, and currency evasion. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva criticized the senator's flight, saying "whoever doesn't owe anything doesn't fear anything."