{"id":43910,"date":"2025-02-19T07:12:35","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T12:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/trump-media-group-sues-brazilian-judge-weighing-arrest-of-jair-bolsonaro\/19\/02\/2025\/"},"modified":"2025-02-19T07:12:35","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T12:12:35","slug":"trump-media-group-sues-brazilian-judge-weighing-arrest-of-jair-bolsonaro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/trump-media-group-sues-brazilian-judge-weighing-arrest-of-jair-bolsonaro\/19\/02\/2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Media Group Sues Brazilian Judge Weighing Arrest of Jair Bolsonaro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">President Trump\u2019s media company sued a Brazilian Supreme Court justice on Wednesday, accusing him of illegally censoring right-wing voices on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The unusual move was made all the more extraordinary by its timing: Just hours earlier, the Brazilian justice had <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/18\/world\/americas\/brazil-bolsonaro-coup-charges.html\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">received an indictment<\/a> that would force him to decide whether to order the arrest of Jair Bolsonaro, the former Brazilian president and an ally of Mr. Trump. The justice is overseeing multiple criminal investigations into Mr. Bolsonaro.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Trump Media &amp; Technology Group \u2014 which is majority owned by Mr. Trump and runs his Truth Social site \u2014 sued the Brazilian justice, Alexandre de Moraes, in U.S. federal court in Tampa on Wednesday morning. Joining as a plaintiff was Rumble, a Florida-based video platform that, like Truth Social, pitches itself as a home for free speech.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The companies accused Justice Moraes of censoring political discourse in the United States and infringing upon the First Amendment by ordering Rumble to remove the accounts of certain right-wing Brazilian pundits.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The companies argued that those orders could apply to how those accounts appeared in the United States, breaking American law. Mr. Trump\u2019s company has not been subject to Justice Moraes\u2019s orders, but it argued in the lawsuit that it relied on Rumble\u2019s technology and therefore could be harmed if Rumble\u2019s operations were affected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Justice Moraes has argued that his actions are necessary to protect Brazil from the anti-democratic acts of Mr. Bolsonaro and his supporters. His spokeswoman said that Justice Moraes did not have immediate comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/19\/world\/americas\/trump-brazil-bolsonaro-judge.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump&rsquo;s media company sued a Brazilian Supreme Court justice on Wednesday, accusing him of illegally censoring right-wing voices on social media.<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/trump-media-group-sues-brazilian-judge-weighing-arrest-of-jair-bolsonaro\/19\/02\/2025\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43910"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}