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Trump calls for immediate end to ‘unjust’ trial of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro

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President Donald Trump is calling for an immediate end to the trial of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who he said is the victim of «unjust» politically motivated attacks.
The Brazilian leader is facing an investigation and an upcoming trial accusing him of leading an attempted coup to stay in office after his 2022 election defeat. Earlier this week, Bolsonaro’s son, Eduardo, was at the White House for meetings.
He later said in a video posted to social media that «decisions are being made» with respect to possible sanctions against Brazilian Supreme Federal Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes that the U.S. has been considering.
«I have seen the terrible treatment you are receiving at the hands of an unjust system turned against you. This should end immediately!» Trump wrote in a letter he sent to Bolsonaro, which the president posted on his Truth Social account Thursday evening.
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«I share your commitment to listening to the voice of the people and I am very concerned about the attacks on free speech – both in Brazil and in the United States – coming out of the current government. I have strongly voiced my disapproval both publicly and through our Tariff policy.»
President Donald Trump arrives before a dinner with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro at Mar-a-Lago March 7, 2020, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Last week, Trump threatened a 50% tariff on products from Brazil in a letter to the country’s president that cited the ongoing case against Bolsonaro.
In November, Federal Police filed a 884-page report with Brazilian Prosecutor-General Paulo Gonet detailing the scheme that alleged Bolsonaro and 33 others participated in a plan to remain in power despite losing to current President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. They allege it involved systematically sowing distrust of the electoral system among the populace, drafting a decree to give the plot a veneer of legality, pressuring top military brass to go along with the plan and inciting a riot in the capital.
A panel of justices on Brazil’s Supreme Court accepted the charges against Bolsonaro in March, and it ordered the former leader to stand trial. All five justices ruled in favor of accepting the charges, which included accusations involving a plan to poison Bolsonaro’s successor and kill a Supreme Court judge.
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Under Brazilian law, a coup conviction carries a sentence of up to 12 years. When combined with the other charges, it could result in a sentence of decades behind bars.

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva attends a ministerial meeting on plans to support Rio Grande do Sul state, which was affected by floods, at the presidential palace in Brasilia, Brazil, May 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
In his letter to Bolsonaro, Trump said it was his «sincere hope» that the government in Brazil «changes course, stops attacking political opponents, and ends their ridiculous censorship regime.»
«I will be watching closely,» Trump added.
For his part, Bolsonaro has denied any wrongdoing, telling reporters, «I have no concerns about the accusations, zero.»
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Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro arrives for a luncheon with senators from his support base at the National Congress building in Brasilia, Brazil, Feb. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
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The Washington Post reported Thursday that, according to four sources familiar with the situation, the U.S. is considering levying sanctions against Judge Moraes, who is leading the case against Bolsonaro. The sanctions, according to the sources who spoke with the Post, would come under the Magnitsky Act, which allops the U.S. to impose sanctions against foreign nationals accused of corruption.
After Trump threatened 50% tariffs on Brazil over the case against Bolsonaro, his successor, Lula, vowed retaliation.
«If there’s no negotiation, the reciprocity law will be put to work. If he charges 50 (% tariffs) from us, we will charge 50 from them,» Lula said, according to The Associated Press. «Respect is good. I like to offer mine, and I like to receive it.»
Fox News Digital’s Emma Colton contributed to this report.
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Trump slams mail-in ballots as corrupt, but may not have the power to derail them

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President Trump told Brian Glenn of the conservative Real America’s Voice that he didn’t want to answer his question because it was «off-topic» as he stood there with Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders.
Then he proceeded to answer it at great length.
The idea, it turns out, began with Vladimir Putin, who has a bit of experience at keeping himself in power, which isn’t all that hard if you’re a dictator.
My source? Donald Trump.
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President Trump’s Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, reportedly told him «it’s impossible to have mail-in voting and have honest elections.» (Photo by SERGEY BOBYLEV/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
He said Putin told him that «it’s impossible to have mail-in voting and have honest elections,» in an interview with Fox’s Sean Hannity. He said Putin told him he won the 2020 election «by so much,» as Trump has long claimed, «and you lost it because of mail-in voting. It was a rigged election.»
Music to the president’s ears.
So Trump was ready when a friendly reporter asked the question.

Trump slammed mail-in ballots as «corrupt» when asked by a reporter, a position he’s maintained since his re-election defeat in 2020. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
«Mail-in ballots are corrupt,» he declared. «Mail-in ballots, you can never have a real democracy with mail-in ballots, and we as a Republican Party are going to do everything possible that we get rid of mail-in ballots. We’re going to start with an executive order that’s being written right now by the best lawyers in the country to end mail-in ballots because they’re corrupt.»
He was just warming up.
And, you know, that we’re the only country in the world, I believe I may be wrong, but just about the only country in the world that uses [mail-in ballots] because of what’s happened, massive fraud all over the place. The other thing we want, change of the machines. For all of the money they spend, it’s approximately 10 times more expensive than paper ballots. And paper ballots are very sophisticated with the watermark paper and everything else, we would get secure elections. We get much faster results, the machines, I mean, they say we’re going to have the results in two weeks with paper ballots. You have the results that night. Most people almost have, but most people in many countries use paper ballots. It’s the most secure form.»
A little fact-checking is in order.
As Axios points out, many countries around the world have some form of mail-in voting. And millions of Americans who live overseas, such as military families, are eligible for mailing in their ballots.
Trump actually doesn’t have the power to do this. While he says the states are an «agent» of the feds, the Constitution says the mechanics of holding elections «shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof.» But Congress can change those requirements. Could the president get this through the narrow majorities in both chambers?
«It’s a fraud,» Trump said, adding: «It’s time that the Republicans get tough and stop it because the Democrats want it, it’s the only way they can get elected.»
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Trump even invoked Jimmy Carter. In 2004, a commission set up by the former president and ex-Reagan aide James Baker III concluded that «absentee ballots remain the largest source of potential voter fraud.»
In 2020, Trump went all-out in favor of mail-in ballots, arguing that they would help Republicans. Of course, he may just have been trying to make the best of the tools already in place. No party believes in unilateral disarmament.
But his enthusiasm for mail-in ballots in that election stands in stark contrast to his current stance that they are corrupt and should be banned.
Trump wound up telling Brian Glenn, who is dating Marjorie Taylor Greene, «I’m glad you asked that question.»

In 2020, Trump favored mail-in ballots under the impression they’d help Republicans – a far cry from his current stance. (Getty Images)
The president doesn’t let himself be tied down by the rules of consistency that most conventional politicians have to obey. Until last Friday, he was insisting on a cease-fire between Russia and Ukraine as a precondition for any peace agreement. After the Alaska summit, he dropped the cease-fire idea that Zelensky had been demanding, given that his country is being bombarded every day, with significant civilian casualties, and adopted the Putin stance of allowing the war to continue to further freeze his military gains in the crucial Donbas region.
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But that flexibility – what critics call flip-flopping – has put the president in the position where he has a shot at hammering out a peace agreement, though major obstacles remain.
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So I expect we’ll hear a lot more about how mail-in ballots are horrible and evil in the coming months, though whether he can get his Hill allies to go along is very much an open question.
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La asombrosa vida de las Haenyeo, las “sirenas” surcoreanas que bucean 20 metros hasta el fondo del mar sin asistencia de oxígeno

Las buceadoras tradicionales de Corea del Sur conocidas como Haenyeo pasan un asombroso 56 por ciento de su jornada laboral bajo el agua conteniendo la respiración, superando en tiempo subacuático a algunos mamíferos marinos como los castores e incluso rivalizando con nutrias y leones marinos. Por primera vez, un estudio científico ha logrado medir el comportamiento y la fisiología de estas extraordinarias mujeres mientras bucean hasta 20 metros de profundidad sin equipo respiratorio alguno.
La investigación, publicada en la revista Current Biology, monitoreó a siete Haenyeo de entre 62 y 80 años mientras recolectaban erizos de mar en las aguas que rodean la isla de Jeju. Los resultados revelan capacidades que desafían los límites humanos conocidos: estas buceadoras realizan hasta 100 inmersiones diarias y pueden mantener la respiración durante dos minutos consecutivos.
“Las Haenyeo son seres humanos increíbles», declaró Chris McKnight de la Universidad de St Andrews, autor principal del estudio. “Sus habilidades de buceo son reconocidamente excepcionales, pero poder medir tanto su comportamiento como su fisiología mientras realizan sus inmersiones diarias de rutina es realmente único.”

El equipo de investigación utilizó instrumentos diseñados originalmente para medir el comportamiento y la fisiología de mamíferos marinos salvajes para rastrear las actividades de buceo y natación de las mujeres. También midieron sus ritmos cardíacos y niveles de oxígeno en sangre a lo largo de toda su jornada laboral, que puede extenderse entre dos y diez horas diarias.
Los hallazgos científicos demuestran que estas mujeres pasan más tiempo bajo el agua que los célebres buceadores Bajau de Indonesia, un grupo de individuos mucho más jóvenes reconocidos mundialmente por sus capacidades de contención respiratoria. El estudio determinó que las Haenyeo dedican una mayor proporción de tiempo diario en el mar que los osos polares. Tras cada inmersión, las buceadoras se recuperan en promedio apenas nueve segundos en la superficie antes de sumergirse nuevamente.

De manera sorprendente, las mujeres no muestran la clásica “respuesta de buceo” mamífera, que consiste en una desaceleración del corazón y reducción del flujo sanguíneo a los músculos durante las inmersiones. En su lugar, exhiben ritmos cardíacos acelerados y solo reducciones leves de oxígeno en el cerebro y músculos. Esta respuesta fisiológica única sugiere que su estilo particular de inmersiones cortas, poco profundas y frecuentes puede activar adaptaciones diferentes a las de sus contrapartes mamíferas.

Las Haenyeo bucean únicamente con trajes de neopreno, aletas, gafas y chalecos o cinturones con peso para facilitar el descenso. Su equipo también incluye un dispositivo de flotación circular llamado tewak, del cual cuelga una red para capturar los alimentos recolectados, que incluyen caracolas, abulón y diversas criaturas marinas. Trabajan individualmente pero siempre permanecen al menos dos personas en el agua simultáneamente para cuidarse mutuamente.
Esta tradición excepcional tiene raíces que se remontan al siglo XVII, cuando los hombres de la isla fueron reclutados para el ejército o perdieron la vida en el mar, dejando a las mujeres como principales proveedoras de sus familias. La isla de Jeju, ubicada a 80 kilómetros de la costa coreana, es el hogar de este grupo exclusivamente femenino de buceadoras.
El término Haenyeo, o jawmnye en idioma de Jeju, significa literalmente «mujeres del mar“. Las buceadoras y el buceo en apnea son elementos integrales de la cultura de Jeju. La influencia de esta práctica es tan prominente que la característica abreviación del idioma de Jeju se atribuye coloquialmente a la necesidad de las buceadoras de comunicarse rápidamente en la superficie del agua.

Las Haenyeo están reconocidas por la UNESCO como Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial de la Humanidad, pero representan un grupo en peligro de extinción. El 90 por ciento de estas buceadoras supera actualmente los 60 años de edad. Sus números han experimentado una caída dramática en décadas recientes, disminuyendo de 14.000 en los años setenta a apenas entre 3.000 y 4.000 en la actualidad.

“Creo que usar animales que consideramos como animales acuáticos para contextualizar y dar perspectiva sobre las buceadoras Haenyeo realmente ayuda a demostrar lo increíbles que son”, explicó McKnight al Daily Mail. La investigación confirma que estas mujeres aprenden la técnica desde adolescentes y continúan trabajando hasta los 90 años de edad.
Los expertos advierten que estas buceadoras podrían representar la última generación de Haenyeo, con la posibilidad de que el grupo desaparezca completamente en los próximos veinte años.
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