BRASILIA ¨C With dark jeans pulled over an ankle monitor attached just hours earlier, Brazil¡¯s right-wing former President Jair Bolsonaro made clear on Friday that the humiliation of court-ordered restraints would not curb his role in global politics.
In a defiant interview at his party¡¯s offices, raided at dawn in the latest crackdown from the Supreme Court, Bolsonaro cast himself as the man to renegotiate U.S. tariffs, curb Chinese influence and beat back leftists in Brazil.
¡°They want to get me out of the political game next year,¡± he said, referring to an election in which President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is set to seek a fourth term. ¡°Without me in the race, Lula could beat anyone.¡±
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