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Flávio Bolsonaro flew to Washington this week with one goal: to be photographed somewhere other than the middle of a corruption story. 

On Tuesday, the senator and presidential hopeful told reporters he had spent roughly an hour and a half with US President Donald Trump at the White House, where he said he “emphatically asked President Trump to designate the PCC and the CV [Brazil's main crime syndicates] as foreign terrorist organizations as soon as possible.” That is one version.

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