All posts tagged "Brazil"

Lawyer and journalist Katie Phang is questioning the timing of a private Oval Office meeting between President Donald Trump and a bribery-linked Brazilian billionaire.

On August 20, Joesley Batista met with Trump, and the following day, the president announced the U.S. would allow up to 300,000 metric tons of imported beef product over the next 90 days, sold at 25 percent below market price, Phang explained in a Wednesday podcast episode. She noted that Batista's company, JBS, processes meat and is the world's largest meatpacker.

"I'm calling him the Brazilian billionaire beef bro of Donald Trump," Phang said....

Trump broke his silence on a meeting with Brazil's president that perplexed journalists on Thursday.

"Just concluded my meeting with Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the very dynamic President of Brazil," Trump wrote in a Truth Social post. "We discussed many topics, including Trade and, specifically, Tariffs. The meeting went very well."

Journalists would have to take Trump's word for it because a scheduled press conference was suddenly nixed, according to reporting by NewsNation. Anchors noted that the two leaders were expected to speak about tariffs and crime, as the Trump administration is considering labeling Brazilian cartels as terrorist groups. ...

“Terrorism for accelerationism, then we get the military supplies to everyone and start war,” a group chat leader wrote on the encrypted platform Signal in October 2024, to almost 150 members spread across Europe, the United States and Australia.

“People need to see lone wolves acting to become empowered,” he continued.

Using a slur, the chat leader added that the conspirators needed to set an example by carrying out acts of violence against Jews. ...

WASHINGTON — Farmers, bankers and international policymakers find themselves in the same camp as President Donald Trump’s international trade war gathers pace: confused, freaked out and lobbying for clarity — if not a carve out.

Just this week, after Trump signed an executive order introducing 50 percent tariffs on most goods from Brazil, a leading Democratic senator met with a handful of concerned Brazilian counterparts, among them a friend from the senator's literally stellar contact book.

“I've met with eight Brazilian senators in my office, and one of them is a guy I’ve known for 30 years, who was the only Brazilian astronaut,” Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ), a former U.S. astronaut himself, told Raw Story at the Capitol. ...

Brazil will host the 2027 women's World Cup, FIFA announced on Friday in Bangkok. For the first time in FIFA women’s World Cup history, the host was decided via a vote between member associations at the FIFA Congress, rather than the FIFA Council. Brazil won the vote ahead of the only rival, a joint bid between Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. Only 78 of the 207 voting members backed having the tournament in Europe, while Brazil received 119 votes. Only 197 votes were valid. Brazil was rated light favourites ahead of the vote, having scored a little better than the Europeans in an evaluat......

Longtime Donald Trump friend and confidant Roger Stone came under fire on Sunday after posting an unrelated photo in an effort to show that the state of New Jersey could be won by Trump in the upcoming 2024 election.

Trump spoke in the Garden state on Saturday, and was criticized for his apparent slurring of speech. Conservative lawyer George Conway went as far as to challenge the mainstream media for failing to properly report on the former president's "aphasia."

Trump bragged about the size of the crowd in New Jersey, but it was also reported that some people started leaving early....