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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe US ambassador to Brazil reportedly asked Brazilian officials to help Trump's reelection
The Trump administration has been accused of attempting to pressure another foreign country into helping Trumps reelection prospects, according to a letter from the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
That letter cites Brazilian news articles that report US ambassador to Brazil Todd Chapman pressured members of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaros administration to lower ethanol tariffs in order to support President Donald Trumps reelection efforts.
In the letter, Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Rep. Eliot Engel demands Chapman explain an article in which the ambassador is said to have asked for the tariffs to be lowered as a favor from the Brazilian government to the Trump reelection campaign.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-us-ambassador-to-brazil-reportedly-asked-brazilian-officials-to-help-trump-s-reelection/ar-BB17skzH?ocid=msedgntp
Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)Our system of government will not survive if one of the two parties refuses to acknowledge the law and the institutions.
This is why I am pretty certain we will not have a normal election or a normal transfer of power and I worry that we are not preparing for that.
If a democrat did that, civil unrest in all cities, fires everywhere.
UTUSN
(70,743 posts)Cha
(297,692 posts)SouthernCal_Dem
(852 posts)COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)he can do whatever the hell he feels like doing with zero consequences. Lesson learned.
rickford66
(5,528 posts)ThoughtCriminal
(14,049 posts)One of many that Barr will overlook.