Trump slaps 50% tariff on Brazil as punishment for witch hunt trial against ex-president Jair Bolsonaro | 9 July 2025 | Donald Trump has hit Brazil with a 50 percent import tariff on "any and all" goods sent to the United States as punishment for the 'witch hunt' trial against former president Jair Bolsonaro. Trump fired off a furious letter to Brazilian President [unelected dirt-bag] Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Wednesday laying out the details of his new tariff. "The way that Brazil has treated former President Bolsonaro, a Highly Respected Leader throughout the world...is an international disgrace," Trump wrote in the letter, which he shared to Truth Social.