Flávio Bolsonaro’s escape from Brazil to Miami turns out to have been arranged, in part, by White House officials including Trump advisor Jason Miller, who arranged for a charter jet to take the Bolsonaros from Argentina to Florida.
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who → turn → Florida
Edward Wong, Ana Ionova, Hamed Aleaziz, and Tyler Pager of the New York Times reported today that Trump himself ordered the State Department to give temporary status to Flávio Bolsonaro and his family on humanitarian grounds.
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Trump → report → grounds
U.S. officials told the reporters that the government will likely grant them permanent residency later.
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government → tell → residency
Wall Street Journal reporters Vera Bergengruen, Samantha Pearson, Ryan Dubé, and Philip Wegmann write that Bolsonaro intends to set up a political system in exile, despite the fact that more than 50 countries, including Latin American leaders from a wide range of political persuasions, have recognized the victory of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Sunday’s election.
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countries → write → election
Lula won by more than 4.4 million votes.
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Lula → win → votes
International observers call that margin decisive.
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observers → call → margin
Trump has refused to recognize Lula’s victory, suggesting that the votes against the right-wing Bolsonaro were rigged.
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votes → refuse → Bolsonaro
But, as the Wall Street Journal reporters add, it is unclear how much political capital he will be willing to expend on propping up Bolsonaro’s pretensions to power.
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he → add → power
Trump’s own energies have been devoted to trying to project authority and power, but he has succeeded primarily in illustrating that he is far more concerned with his development projects than with what’s going on in the White House.
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what → devote → House
Yesterday he posted at length on social media about the East Potomac Golf Course he wants to redo—the one where the administration cut down more than 400 trees in defiance of a judge’s order—saying it “is highly dangerous, dilapidated, and absolutely disgusting” and calling for it to be “closed immediately for safety reasons!”
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it → post → reasons
Last night, Eric Flack of WUSA9 reported that the National Park Service told a federal judge it is closing not just the East Potomac Golf Course, but also nearly all of Hains Point beginning on November 15.
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it → report → November
As Flack notes, this area includes “the perimeter running loop, the dedicated bike and pedestrian lane the Park Service completed in 2023, and the picnic areas and open space used year-round.”
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Service → note → 2023
The Park Service did not say how long the closure would last.
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closure → say → ?
Trump promised: “After we are done, the East Potomac Course will be a place of immeasurable Pride for the City, all of the Golf Enthusiasts who live here, a Course
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who → promise → Course
Rachel Treisman of NPR reports that plans for the finished park show only a golf course.
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plans → report → course
The current facilities for walkers, runners, cyclists, birders, picnickers, and so on, are not shown.
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facilities → show → walkers
Trump is paying less attention to the affairs of government.
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Trump → pay → government
Today, when asked about claims that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had fired Lieutenant General Sylvia for leaking classified information from the Pentagon, Trump responded: “She’s got problems.
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She → ask → problems
She’s gonna have big problems.
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She → go → problems
She did.
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She → do → ?
We’re very much looking for leakers and ah, she’s going to have big problems.
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she → look → problems
Lieutenant General Brett Sylvia, the director for strategy, plans, and policy on the joint staff that advises the president on military issues, is a man.
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that → advise → issues
Tonight Shauneen Miranda of News From the States reported that Trump has cancelled his rallies in Kansas and Iowa, planned for this weekend.
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Trump → report → weekend
When a reporter asked if the Kansas cancellation meant he was “sick of traveling,” Trump exploded, calling the reporter “sick” and “disgusting” and saying, “You look like hell.”
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You → ask → hell
Trump is also expending his energies in trying to convince Americans that the Democrats are rigging the 2026 midterms.
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Democrats → expend → midterms
The administration has tried to force California to set aside 20,000 ballots in the election, claiming that those casting them might not be citizens.
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those → try → them
Yesterday, as Ryan Sabalow of Cal Matters reported, U.S. District Judge David O. Carter refused to agree, saying the Trump administration is engaging in “a broad, ongoing pattern of attempted election interference.”
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administration → report → interference
Carter noted that Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has also sent letters to the secretaries of state in New Jersey, Nevada, and Pennsylvania claiming that the states’ voter rolls include noncitizens.
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rolls → note → noncitizens
Mullin publicly alleged there were 15,903 noncitizens on the voter rolls in Nevada, then quietly dropped that number to 185.
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Mullin → allege → 185
When Nevada officials chased down the 185 names, every single one belonged to a U.S. citizen.
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one → chase → citizen
“Never before in American history has the federal government, on the eve of an election, sought to coerce a state and local government to abandon their own Constitutional elections procedures and bend to the will of the Executive Branch,” Carter wrote.
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Carter → seek → Branch
“This case is about the right of every American citizen to vote in a free and fair election.”
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case → vote → election
The administration has asked a federal appeals court to rule by Friday on an emergency attempt to stop California from including those 20,000 ballots in the ballot count.
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administration → ask → count
In the meantime, as Rick Hasen of Election Law Blog reported, this afternoon the leadership of the Department of Justice directed California’s top federal prosecutors to launch criminal investigations of local and state officials, claiming they are administering illegal voting.
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they → report → voting
In a “but her emails” kind of moment, the administration is also jumping on yesterday’s New York Times story by Kellen Browning that a staffer for the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate from Alaska, Mary Peltola, searched for and recruited a man with a name similar to that of the Republican candidate, Dan Sullivan, as a spoiler for the race.
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staffer → jump → race
Browning reported that this sort of activity, called “ballot stacking,” is “common in politics and generally considered legal—and [has] been employed by both parties in Alaska,” and that Republicans had used it against Peltola herself two years ago.
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Republicans → report → Peltola
The author suggested the story was important simply because it “reveals the lengths to which Democrats went to seek advantage in a Senate race that could determine control of the chamber.”
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that → suggest → chamber
The source for the story, Peltola’s former campaign manager Elisa Rios, said Peltola was not directly involved in the project but was “definitely aware.”
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Peltola → say → project
Before publication of the story, Browning notes, Rios “contacted The Times and said she wanted to take back her previous statements.
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she → note → statements
‘As discussed on our call earlier today, I am confirming that I have retracted all statements made regarding the 2026 Alaska Senate Race in connection with any article you may or may not be writing,’ Ms. Rios wrote.
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Rios → discuss → may
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