Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Saturday that the United States did not directly help Brazilian presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro leave Brazil for the United States after his election loss.
“The U.S. government was not involved directly in any of the moves that were made,” Rubio told reporters in Atlanta on Saturday.
Rubio said Bolsonaro had previously held a U.S. visa and President Donald Trump allowed him entry.
Trump said Oct. 31 that Bolsonaro could remain in the United States indefinitely and criticized Brazil’s election.
Trump said he had no plans to meet with Bolsonaro while he was in Florida. …