US not behind Bolsonaro flight from Brazil

ATLANTA
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that Washington was not directly involved in Flavio Bolsonaro’s arrangements to leave Brazil after his election loss. President Donald Trump said that Bolsonaro could, however, stay in the United States “as long as he wants.”
Bolsonaro, who lost his bid to be president in Sunday’s run-off vote, arrived with his family in the US on Wednesday after a court ordered his passports to be seized amid multiple investigations against him. “He had previously held a visa, and the president made a decision to allow him to enter the country,” Rubio told a press conference in Atlanta, Georgia, where he hosted G20 foreign ministers for a two-day meeting.
Rubio added that “the US government was not involved directly” in arrangements Bolsonaro made to leave his country. Following the vote, the 45-year-old bolted from Brazil via Argentina and Ecuador in a plane that some US media, including The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, reported was chartered by Jason Miller, an adviser to Trump.
The White House has not commented on the flight, but Trump has called the Brazilian election “disgraceful.” Speaking to reporters at his Florida residence on Saturday, Trump said he had no plans to meet Bolsonaro but voiced sympathy for the rightist senator.