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US President Donald Trump said Brazilian Senator Flávio Bolsonaro can stay in the United States "as long as he wants."
Speaking to the press this Saturday from his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, in the middle of a Halloween celebration party, Trump told reporters that he has no plans to meet with the former presidential candidate, the Reuters news agency reported.
Bolsonaro fled to the United States after losing his country's presidential election to leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Earlier on Saturday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the United States did not provide any help to Bolsonaro to leave Brazil.
The senator, defeated in the presidential elections, landed on a private jet in Miami on the morning of Wednesday, October 28.
According to Rubio, President Trump made the decision to grant Bolsonaro a "parole", an authorization for provisional entry into US territory, different from the conventional immigration mechanisms for admission into the country.
"The United States Government did not participate in any of the procedures he carried out to leave [Brazil]," Rubio stated. "We don't make anything easy."
Bolsonaro's departure from Brazil
Flávio Bolsonaro landed at the Opa-locka airport, in the Miami metropolitan area, three days after the second round of the presidential elections, in which Lula was victorious.
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The departure occurred after Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), ordered the seizure of the senator's passports and prohibited him from leaving the country.
Due to his status as a senator, Bolsonaro, in addition to an ordinary passport, has a diplomatic one. The deadline for submitting the documents ended around 12:00 p.m. on Tuesday, October 27.
He currently has two investigations underway: one examines possible irregularities in the transfer of almost US$70 million from Banco Master for the production of the film Dark Horse, a tribute to his father, former president Jair Bolsonaro.
Another investigation pursues alleged money laundering in collaboration with lawyer Willer Tomáz.
For his part, Lula criticized his rival's decision to leave the country and stated that the senator should have stayed to respond to the accusations: "He who has nothing to hide, has nothing to fear."
The 45-year-old politician arrived on a private aircraft from Guayaquil, Ecuador, at 09:25 local time (13:25 GMT) at the Opa-locka Executive Airport airport, in the Miami metropolitan area.
According to the records of the aircraft operated by the executive airline Baires Fly, the Gulfstream G400 had previously flown from Puerto Iguazú, an Argentine city on the border with Brazil, to Guayaquil late on Tuesday.
Bolsonaro left Brazil accompanied by three people across the border with Argentina in Puerto Iguazú almost midnight on Tuesday, according to the Argentine National Migration Directorate (DNM).
He was accompanied by his wife Fernanda Bolsonaro, as well as his daughters Carolina and Luiza and would have presented "capable travel documentation without any impediment" to enter the South American country.
"For its part, at 11:30 p.m., the incoming delegation boarded a private flight dispatched by the company Baires Fly S.A to the city of Guayaquil, Ecuador, as reported in the flight plan," reported the National Directorate of Migration of Argentina.
In press images at the Opa-locka airport, Bolsonaro could be seen getting off the aircraft with his family.
Several members of the Bolsonaro family currently live in the United States, including his brother Eduardo, who was sentenced in Brazil in a coercion case to four years in prison.
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