U.S. President Donald Trump said Brazil’s presidential runoff Oct. 25 that resulted in the reelection of the country’s progressive incumbent looked “rigged.”
“It looked terrible to me,” Trump told reporters Monday. “I thought it was terrible. I didn’t take sides but it looked like another rigged election, frankly. It was a terrible look for the world.”
Trump said he didn’t endorse Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva or his opponent, conservative Sen. Flavio Bolsonaro.
Lula, 80, won a fourth term with 51.8 percent of the total vote—a lead of nearly 4.4 million votes.
Bolsonaro, 45, son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, refused to concede defeat Monday. He announced Sunday night that he would seek to annul the results of the election, criticizing the actions of a Supreme Court justice appointed by Lula who ordered a two-hour extension of voting….