The Federal Attorney General’s Office (AGU) recently reported that it had activated the Federal Police (PF) and the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) to investigate the alleged financing of Donald Trump’s government to interfere in the Brazilian elections and delegitimize the Federal Supreme Court (STF).
The measure was announced after the English newspaper The Guardian report that the United States government has allocated US$1 million (around R$5.1 million) to projects that promote a campaign against the Supreme Court.
The AGU considered the information serious given the Brazilian electoral process, which is ongoing.
The body also declared that the episode occurs after recent acts of external pressure from the United States against Brazilian institutions.
“If the receipt of foreign capital to promote orderly and systematic attacks on national sovereignty and the functioning of the institutions of the Brazilian Justice System is proven, through the instrumentalization of international funds diverted from their original purpose of protecting human rights, it could reveal a structure of external interference in internal affairs of the Brazilian State”, said the AGU.
The AGU also highlighted that Brazilian legislation enshrines freedom of expression and the legitimate right to criticism, but also prohibits foreign interference in the country.
“The same Brazilian constitutional order is based on the foundations of sovereignty, independence and non-intervention. Such premises unfold, for example, in the prohibition of financing or subordination of political groups by foreign entities or governments”, he added.
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The British newspaper The Guardian published a report, this Wednesday (30), with the information that the United States government allocated US$ 1 million (around R$ 5.1 million) to promote a campaign against the Federal Supreme Court (STF).
According to the media outlet, the action was titled Combating Lawfare and Censorship in Brazil and “would finance civil society groups that oppose what the project calls excessive judicial action and censorship on the part of the Supreme Court of Brazil”.
The resources would have been allocated by Congress to the Human Rights and Democracy Fund (HRDF). There is no information whether the money was transferred or just committed to projects abroad defined by the White House.
The English publication also recalled that Donald Trump’s government imposed sanctions on STF minister Alexandre de Moraes last year, “after pressure from Eduardo Bolsonaro, son of the former president”.
During the trial for an attempted coup d’état in Brazil, which sentenced former president Jair Bolsonaro to 27 years in prison, the STF became a target of the Trump administration.
Washington has also criticized the restrictions imposed by the Supreme Court on US digital platforms with the aim of inhibiting crimes committed in the digital environment. The Trump administration has been pressuring countries not to adopt any rules regarding big tech.
A Brazil Agency He sought out the STF press office to comment on the foreign magazine’s report, but did not receive a response by the time this report was written.
O The Guardian states that he had access to sources and documents from the US State Department, controlled by Secretary Marco Rúbio, which detail the allocation of US$176.9 million (around R$918 million) to 43 projects with the aim of promoting the Trump administration’s agenda in several countries.
“There was direct pressure from members of the Trump administration for these funds, reflecting interests that include the warnings of James David Vance (JD Vance) [vice-presidente dos EUA] about the collapse of traditional Western values in Europe and the campaign of Stephen Miller [assessor da Casa Branca] against immigration and in support of white minorities in countries like South Africa,” wrote journalists Andrew Roth and Joseph Gedeon.
For the United Kingdom, funding of US$5 million (around R$25.9 million) was planned to support a group that campaigns against online safety and anti-hate speech laws, including the Great Britain Online Safety Act (Ofcom), approved in 2023.
“Aimed to protect children from harmful content and overseen by Ofcom, the law includes age verification rules — in force since last year — that have been the target of constant criticism from the Trump administration, which classifies them as censorship,” says the magazine.
The biggest beneficiary of the Trump administration’s donations would be the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, which would have as one of its leaders the former White House domestic policy advisor in the Trump administration, Andrew Bremberg. This foundation would receive US$40 million (around R$207.6 million).
In response to his own The Guardianthe US State Department said projects in Europe would seek to support “our allies in defending these rights and principles, as well as their civilizational self-confidence and sovereignty, against those who seek to undermine them.”
Source: www.brasildefato.com.br
