The eldest son of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Saturday that his father doesn’t have a deadline to return to Brazil and dismissed the idea of extradition by the United States.
Bolsonaro traveled to the U.S. late last month, two days before the end of his term, skipping the inauguration of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Congressional Democrats have pushed President Joe Biden to kick Bolsonaro out of the U.S. after his supporters vandalized government buildings in Brasilia on Jan. 8, protesting Lula’s victory and trying to unseat him.
“The far left in the U.S. plays the role of the far left here. They push for a political issue,” Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro told reporters in Brasilia. “I believe that the U.S. is a serious country that won’t do anything illegal.”
