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What Flavio Bolsonaro said about apply sanctions to Brazilian companies

Flavio Bolsonaro

Flavio Bolsonaro

April 7, 2026

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About: apply sanctions to Brazilian companies

Desconhecido: I didn't expect that

Desconhecido: it would expand that to tax measures. No, everyone was taken by surprise. At the moment he

made those statements, that he celebrated—he didn't celebrate. He was saying, look, Trump did the right thing. But in the package came something that I never put on the table, no one ever imagined that this would happen.

Flavio Bolsonaro · 32:17

Flavio Bolsonaro: So much so that right after I was heavily questioned by the press about that.

Flavio Bolsonaro: I said, man, Eduardo never asked for that and I'm against that. I never celebrated. Who would be in favor of you punishing Brazilian companies because of the misdeeds of a Supreme Court minister? And

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denies having celebrated sanctions and reiterates opposition to punishing Brazilian companies.

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