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title: "Brazil Orders Investigation Into Report That Trump Administration Funded Far-Right Groups"
description: "The attorney general acted after The Guardian reported that Washington planned a $1 million award to groups opposing Brazil’s Supreme Court."
author: "rews desk"
published: 2026-10-01T22:48:17Z
modified: 2026-10-02T02:13:56Z
url: https://rews.cc/a/brazil-orders-investigation-into-report-that-trump-administr-27a846
language: en
tags: ["politics", "trump", "brazil", "elections", "far-right", "world", "us"]
publisher: "Rews (https://rews.cc)"
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# Brazil Orders Investigation Into Report That Trump Administration Funded Far-Right Groups

*The attorney general acted after The Guardian reported that Washington planned a $1 million award to groups opposing Brazil’s Supreme Court.*

By rews desk · October 1, 2026 · https://rews.cc/a/brazil-orders-investigation-into-report-that-trump-administr-27a846

## In brief

- Attorney General Jorge Messias on Thursday requested an investigation into reported U.S. funding of far-right causes
- The Guardian reported that the Trump administration planned a $1 million award to groups opposing Brazil’s Supreme Court
- The award is reportedly titled “Countering lawfare and censorship in Brazil”
- Messias wrote on social media that foreign meddling “cannot be tolerated” and called the report a warning for sovereignty
- The request comes ahead of Brazil’s presidential election; the court tried former President Jair Bolsonaro

Brazil’s attorney general, Jorge Messias, on Thursday called on law enforcement to investigate reported efforts by the Trump administration to steer money to far-right causes in Brazil, days after a British newspaper reported that Washington planned a $1 million award to groups fighting the country’s Supreme Court.

Mr. Messias acted one day after The Guardian reported that the administration of President Trump planned to direct the money to right-wing civil society groups that oppose the Brazilian court. A separate account of the [newspaper’s reporting](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/1/brazilian-government-calls-for-probe-into-us-funding-of-far-right-causes) said the administration had sought to redirect $175 million from the State Department’s human rights fund to various causes.

According to a [report by Firstpost](https://www.firstpost.com/world/brazil-warns-meddling-will-not-be-tolerated-amid-reports-of-trump-funding-against-supreme-court-14049815.html), the $1 million award is titled “Countering lawfare and censorship in Brazil” and would finance groups opposed to what Washington calls judicial overreach and censorship by the court.

Mr. Messias announced the request in a social media post. Foreign meddling in Brazilian institutions “cannot be tolerated,” he wrote, calling The Guardian’s report “an important alert for Brazilian sovereignty.”

The Supreme Court is the central foe of Brazil’s far right. Justice Alexandre de Moraes oversaw the trial of former President Jair Bolsonaro, the movement’s leader, and the report of American money arriving on the side of the court’s opponents landed as Brazil moves toward a presidential election.

The attorney general’s office said it had filed a formal complaint seeking the investigation. It was not immediately clear which American agency or officials the inquiry would examine, or whether any of the money had yet been paid out.