Brazil presidential hopeful Flavio Bolsonaro in Washington to seek meeting with Trump

Brazilian right-wing senator Flavio Bolsonaro,, the oldest son of former President Jair Bolsonaro and a hopeful in Brazil's 2026 presidential election, arrived in Washington on Monday hoping to meet U.S. President Donald Trump in the coming days, according to two people familiar with the situation.

• One of the sources declined to specify when the meeting might take place, while a second told Reuters, on condition of anonymity, that although the encounter is not guaranteed, it could happen very soon.

• Paulo Figueiredo, a journalist and ally of Flavio Bolsonaro, said on his X account that the senator's campaign neither confirmed nor denied the meeting, adding only that he is in Washington for "high-level meetings."

• The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

• Reuters reported last week that the senator was seeking a meeting with Trump to help weather a political crisis that has dented his standing in polls against leftist incumbent President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva ahead of October's elections.

• The crisis stems from the senator's admission that he requested money from a jailed banker, accused of fraud, to finance a film about his father, who was convicted of attempting to overturn Brazil's democratic order after losing his bid for reelection in 2022.

  -Luciana Magalhaes/Reuters