Brazil's new right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro began his tour of Washington, D.C. by dining with former chief White House strategist Steve Bannon, then visited the CIA on Monday.
Bolsonaro, whose conservative rise, attacks on the media, and freewheeling style have drawn comparisons to Trump, dined Sunday night along with the exiled former Trump confidant and other conservative commentators.
Also present were American Conservative Union head Matt Schlapp, whose wife is White House official Mercedes Schlapp, plus conservative commentator Roger Kimball and Wall Street Journal editorial writer Anastasia O'Grady.
A handout picture released by the Brazilian Presidency shows Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro sitting next to President Donald Trump's former strategist Stephen Bannon. Bolsonaro is to meet Trump on Tuesday
According to an image, Bolsonaro hosted a dinner for a large group seated at a candle-lit table, where generous portions of red caviar was served.
On Monday, Brazilian president visited CIA headquarters Monday, in another unusual PR move.
The CIA backed a 1964 coup against President João Goulart, who had been democratically elected.
'Some of the Bolsonaro team on the right see themselves as disciples of the Bannon movement and representatives of Bannon for Brazil and Latin America,” Fernando Cutz, a former Trump National Security Council official told McClatchy.
He is also getting a show of appreciation from President Trump, staying at Blair House across from the White House and joining in an expected press conference Tuesday.
QUITE A COUP: Brazil's President Jair Bolsonarolater visited the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, after earlier making a trip to the CIA that his son Eduardo, a Brazilian legislator, revealed online
President Trump and Bolsonaro were expected to use their Tuesday meeting to forge ties in their growing conservative populist alliance
Bolsonaro began his trip to Washington by hosting a dinner with conservatives at the Brazilian
