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Speaking to reporters on Thursday, President Trump spoke about former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro who is currently on trial over his alleged attempt to overturn his defeat in the 2022 election.

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00:00...to be interviewed, as you know, if you're a journalist, but I would like to see it.
00:04Add on tariffs. Brazil, Mexico, and Latin America are getting closer to China.
00:08And they say it's partly because of the tariffs you're imposing in those countries.
00:11Are you concerned about them getting closer to China?
00:14No, not at all. I'm not concerned at all. They can do what they want.
00:18You know, none of them are doing very well.
00:20And what we're doing in terms of economics, we're blowing everyone away, including China.
00:25We're doing better than any other country in the world right now.
00:28Now, Brazil has been a horrible trading partner in terms of tariffs.
00:34As you know, they charge us tremendous tariffs, far, far more than we were charging them.
00:38We weren't charging anything, essentially.
00:41And Brazil has some very bad laws happening where they took a president and they put him in jail,
00:46or they're trying to jail him. And I happen to know the man.
00:49And I will tell you, I'm pretty good at people. I think he's an honest man.
00:53And I think what they've done, this is an electric, this is really a political execution
00:58that they're trying to do with Bolsonaro. I think that's terrible.
01:01But they also treated us very badly as trading partners for many, many years.
01:06One of the worst, one of the worst countries on earth for that.
01:09They charged tremendous tariffs and they made it very difficult to do anything.
01:13So now they're being charged 50% tariffs and they're not happy, but that's the way it goes.
01:19Mr. President, Mr. President.
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