Rubio says "the US government was not involved directly" in Flavio Bolsonaro's departure

Speaking in Atlanta during a G20 foreign ministers’ meeting, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said U.S. officials did not arrange Flavio Bolsonaro’s departure from Brazil after Bolsonaro lost the country’s presidential runoff. Bolsonaro reached the United States with his family on Wednesday after a court ordered his passports confiscated during multiple investigations. President Donald Trump said Bolsonaro, who already had a visa, was allowed into the country and could stay without a time limit. News outlets reported that Trump adviser Jason Miller chartered the plane; an airline chief told AFP an intermediary paid from a U.S. bank account, and the White House has not commented. Flavio’s father, former President Jair Bolsonaro, is under house arrest while serving a 27-year sentence for plotting a coup.