Brazil’s Lula calls Bolsonaro a Trump ‘copycat’ in CNN interview

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva called his far-right predecessor Jair Bolsonaro a “faithful copycat” of Donald Trump and said there was no chance Bolsonaro would return to the presidency.
The leftist leader told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Friday that Brazil’s judiciary is investigating Bolsonaro for attacks on democracy.
During the interview in Washington ahead of a meeting with U.S. President Biden, Lula said that he would not ask the United States to extradite Bolsonaro – who has been in Florida since the end of December – as any such request would be up to Brazil’s judiciary.
But Lula said he hopes the former president will be convicted of genocide by an international court for his handlingof the COVID-19 pandemic that killed 698,000 Brazilians.
Bolsonaro’s U.S. trip insulates him from any immediate legal jeopardy in Brazil, where he is under investigation in at least four criminal probes.