President Donald Trump has long been politically aligned with Brazilian right-wing leader Jair Bolsonaro, and a conservative media outlet is now accusing Trump of prioritizing his friendship with the Bolsonaro family over the interests of American justice.

In a column for The Bulwark, Jonathan V. Last wrote on Wednesday that Trump is aiding the defeated far-right Brazilian presidential candidate by offering him asylum in the United States, where he is facing charges in his home country.

"Marco Rubio arranged it," Last wrote. "The secretary of state worked clandestinely to bend/ignore American laws to give this one particular suspected criminal safe haven. Then Rubio gave him a visa, after the fact."

He added, "And just like that—poof!—the Trump administration's cavils about illegal immigrants, criminals, gang members, Tren de Aragua, the whole absurd megillah, vanished."

Last continued, "By now you realize I'm talking about Flávio Bolsonaro, who snuck into the United States with Sec. Rubio's help and Donald Trump's blessing. And by now you realize that Make America Great Again isn't actually about 'illegal immigration.'" Flávio Bolsonaro is a Brazilian senator and the eldest son of Jair Bolsonaro.

He argued the episode proves "It was never about illegal immigration. It's about racism, corruption, and turning America into a dictatorship. The same people who claimed that they wanted to stop America from looking like the Third World? What they wanted—more than anything—was to turn America into a Third World dictatorship."

From there, Last concluded that Trump's "America First" claims were always a disingenuous ploy concealing a desire for the strongest person in the room to dominate.

"Donald Trump does not like the liberal order," Last wrote. "He does not believe that laws should bind all men equally. He does not believe in inalienable rights, or due process, or checks and balances. He believes in will to power. This is why Trump admires and gets along well with autocrats and detests democratically elected liberal leaders. Trump is much more comfortable with Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, and Kim Jong-un than he is with the leaders of Denmark, or Japan, or Italy."

Returning to the subject at hand, Last added that "it's why he feels kinship with Viktor Orbán and Jair Bolsonaro—because they were aspiring dictators, like him. It's why he's now using the American government to protect Flávio. Donald Trump realizes that Flávio, too, is a kindred spirit. But here's the big thing: Trump also realizes that when an aspiring dictator anywhere faces accountability, it's a danger to aspiring dictators everywhere."

This article is based on reporting from Alternet. Last's full column is available at The Bulwark.