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President-elect Jair Bolsonaro is Trump's No. 1 fan in Brazil

WASHINGTON - National security adviser John Bolton was headed to South America anyway. But still, a stopover he made in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday amounted to a notably friendly gesture toward the man who has gleefully billed himself as "Brazil's Trump" - President-elect Jair Bolsonaro.

Bolsonaro, the pugnacious far-right politician who swept to victory in Brazil's presidential election last month, received Bolton at his beachfront home, marking the incoming leader's first encounter with a high-ranking U.S. official. After the hourlong meeting, Bolton said he had invited the 63-year-old Bolsonaro, who will

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