00:02Following the re-election of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Brazil,
00:07U.S. President Donald Trump claimed the results were rigged and corrupt,
00:11without providing any evidence.
00:13While Trump had not formally endorsed right-wing candidate Flavio Bolsonaro,
00:18he had publicly supported him,
00:19as he pledged to join a wave of conservative Latin American leaders cosying up to Washington.
00:24Well, it looked terrible to me. I thought it was a terrible look.
00:28And I didn't take sides, but it looked like another rigged election, frankly.
00:33I didn't take sides, but it was a terrible look for the world.
00:38It's another election. You know, elections have to be indisputable.
00:44And it looked very bad to me.
00:46I didn't take sides, I didn't endorse anybody or anything,
00:49but I watched the election and it looked so corrupt, so terrible.
00:53Bolsonaro initially refused to recognize Lula's victory,
00:57saying it was impossible to acknowledge the result
00:59and that the election should have been annulled.
01:02He has since said he would organize the opposition.
01:05Lula's victory bucks a regional trend towards the right
01:09seen in Chile, Colombia and Peru, among others,
01:12limiting Trump's drive to tighten his grip on the Western Hemisphere.
01:16In his campaign, Lula promised Brazil would maintain control over its resources
01:20and preserve its freedom to sell beyond the U.S.,
01:23while also protecting efforts to stop illegal cutting of the Amazon rainforest.
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