Posted on 07/30/2025 4:45:15 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
"The policies, practices, and actions of the Government of Brazil are repugnant," the order states.
WASHINGTON — As the United States Treasury Department sanctioned Brazil’s infamous Supreme Court justice, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday slapping an additional 40% tariff on the country in response to the “unusual and extraordinary threat” that Brazil poses to U.S. national security.
The president’s order uses the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 to declare a new national emergency, saying that Brazil has engaged in practices and policies harming United States companies, United States foreign policy and economy, and the free speech rights of American citizens. The new 40% tariff is on top of the baseline 10% tariff already in place on Brazil, meaning that there is now a 50% tariff on Brazilian imports to the U.S.
“I find that the unprecedented actions taken by the Government of Brazil have violated the free expression rights of United States persons, interfered with the economy of the United States….subverted the interest of the United States in protecting its citizens and companies, undermined the rule of law in Brazil, and jeopardized the orderly development of Brazil‘s political, administrative, and economic institutions,” the order states.
A White House fact sheet shared with The Daily Wire specifically points to the prosecution of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and his supporters, denouncing the persecution, intimidation, harassment, censorship, and prosecution of these people, and calling the treatment “serious human rights abuses” that have “undermined the rule of law in Brazil.”
The move is another example of the president leveraging tariffs to protect American interests both at home and abroad, particularly when it comes to freedom of speech. The United States has serious concerns about the government of Brazil forcing U.S. companies to censor...
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Good. The Deep State and Biden regime interfered in Brazil to remove Bolsonaro. Now this lunatic dictator in a black robe has made all sorts of crazy rulings with no check on his power. OK. How ya like gargantuan tariffs then?
Wow, that’s awesome. Wielding power for the good of humanity.
Who elected Brazil’s Chief Judge?
The bad thing is this hurts companies that may have nothing to do with leftist Brazilian government scums.
Gee, thats too bad.
Trump just announced on his true social a deal with South Korea
15% terrace on South Korea zero on the United States
Plus,hundreds of millions of dollars of investments in the United States and 100s of billions of liquid natural gas to be purchased by South Korea
I have a serious question. I am not opposed to tariffs in general and agree to them being used bring attention to unfair trade practices and end them. But my question is this,
Could an argument be made that tariff’s used as a political tools because Trump is against the policies (rightly so) of another nation hoping it will lead not just to changes in economic policies but broader ones as well be considered a soft form of nation building?
If it is should the U.S. get involved with the internal policies of other countries to the point of influencing a change of government? Even if that country has not made clear their desire to do the same to us?
The judge is an anti-American loon who is going after pro-American people to further his political ideals in Brazil. He has done this in the past also.
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