Brazil police raid Bolsonaro's home as US revokes judge's visa amid Trump-Lula feud
His son Eduardo Bolsonaro, a congressman who recently moved to the United States to lobby for his father, wrote on social media that federal police carried out a 'raid on my father's home this morning'.
He lashed out at Supreme Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes, a Bolsonaro adversary who on Friday ordered the ex-president to wear an electronic ankle bracelet, not leave his home at night, or use social media.
Moraes, one of the judges in Bolsonaro's trial for allegedly seeking to nullify leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's 2022 election victory, said the measures were necessary given the 'hostile acts' against Brazil by the accused and his son.
This came after Trump announced a 50 per cent tariff on the South American powerhouse for what he said was a 'witch hunt' against his ally Bolsonaro.
Moraes, said Eduardo Bolsonaro, 'has long abandoned any semblance of impartiality and now operates as a political gangster in robes, using the Supreme Court as his personal weapon'.
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