Brazil's Bolsonaro gets 27-year jail sentence for coup plot

[Zincwarrior]

Brazil found former President PBolsanro guity and dentenced to 27 years for trying to overturn the 2022 election. The Trump Administration, immediately denounced the sentenced and threatened punishment for that internal Brazilian matter.

https://www.axios.com/2025/09/11/brazil-supreme-court-bolsonaro-coup-guilty

Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro was convicted of plotting a military coup to overturn the country's 2022 election in a majority ruling by the Brazilian Supreme Court on Thursday.

The latest: Bolsonaro's lawyers said in a media statement after he was sentenced to more than 27 years in prison that they would appeal and called the prison term "excessive and disproportionate."




The big picture: President Trump, who demanded that Brazil drop criminal charges against Bolsonaro in a letter that threatened to impose a 50% tariff on Brazilian imports, said he found it "surprising that could happen, very much like they tried to do with me," comparing the verdict to prosecutions he faced that were dropped after his 2024 election win, per a pool report.

• Trump did not immediately answer the reporter's question on whether he will now impose additional sanctions on Brazil.
• Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the "United States will respond accordingly to this witch hunt" in a post to X that also attacked Brazilian Justice Alexandre de Moraes, whom the U.S. has sanctioned in response to the Bolsonaro case.
• Brazil's foreign ministry said in response on X that "threats" like the one Rubio made "attack Brazilian authority and ignores the facts and the compelling evidence in the records" and these "will not intimidate our democracy," per an auto-translation.

State of play: Bolsonaro and his co-accused were charged in February following a two-year investigation into the fallout from the 2022 election that Bolsonaro never formally conceded, which saw his supporters storm the presidential palace and other government buildings on Jan. 8, 2023.

• Four of the five Supreme Court justices voted to find Bolsonaro and seven other defendants guilty and one judge voted to acquit him.
• The 70-year-old, who denied any wrongdoing, faces what could effectively be a life sentence if his appeal is unsuccessful.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

Brazil found former President PBolsanro guity and dentenced to 27 years for trying to overturn the 2022 election. The Trump Administration, immediately denounced the sentenced and threatened punishment for that internal Brazilian matter.

https://www.axios.com/2025/09/11/brazil-supreme-court-bolsonaro-coup-guilty

Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro was convicted of plotting a military coup to overturn the country's 2022 election in a majority ruling by the Brazilian Supreme Court on Thursday.

The latest: Bolsonaro's lawyers said in a media statement after he was sentenced to more than 27 years in prison that they would appeal and called the prison term "excessive and disproportionate."




The big picture: President Trump, who demanded that Brazil drop criminal charges against Bolsonaro in a letter that threatened to impose a 50% tariff on Brazilian imports, said he found it "surprising that could happen, very much like they tried to do with me," comparing the verdict to prosecutions he faced that were dropped after his 2024 election win, per a pool report.

• Trump did not immediately answer the reporter's question on whether he will now impose additional sanctions on Brazil.
• Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the "United States will respond accordingly to this witch hunt" in a post to X that also attacked Brazilian Justice Alexandre de Moraes, whom the U.S. has sanctioned in response to the Bolsonaro case.
• Brazil's foreign ministry said in response on X that "threats" like the one Rubio made "attack Brazilian authority and ignores the facts and the compelling evidence in the records" and these "will not intimidate our democracy," per an auto-translation.

State of play: Bolsonaro and his co-accused were charged in February following a two-year investigation into the fallout from the 2022 election that Bolsonaro never formally conceded, which saw his supporters storm the presidential palace and other government buildings on Jan. 8, 2023.

• Four of the five Supreme Court justices voted to find Bolsonaro and seven other defendants guilty and one judge voted to acquit him.
• The 70-year-old, who denied any wrongdoing, faces what could effectively be a life sentence if his appeal is unsuccessful.

Trump is fotming a ;aw breaking regime in Washington.

 

[odanny]

Democracy is still alive in Brazil. God bless 'em.

The U.S. is actively, again, trying to usurp democracy. I stand with Brazil.

**** Trump, **** Rubio, and **** fascism.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Brazil had a fradulent election that made the Communist criminal Lula President

 

[martybegan]

Democracy is still alive in Brazil. God bless 'em.

The U.S. is actively, again, trying to usurp democracy. I stand with Brazil.

**** Trump, **** Rubio, and **** fascism.

You also probably believe the elections in Venezuela are free and fair.

 

[odanny]

You also probably believe the elections in Venezuela are free and fair.

I believe you are not very bright, and your posting history has confirmed I'm right.

 

[martybegan]

I believe you are not very bright, and your posting history has confirmed I'm right.

LOL, talk about a non-response.

Try again.

 

[Deadstick]

Brazil had a fradulent election that made the Communist criminal Lula President

Any evidence Frank? Lula is popular, that head banger Bolsonaro tried to stage a Coup and was stopped, what the hell it has to do with Trump i have no idea.

 

[Deadstick]

You also probably believe the elections in Venezuela are free and fair.

elections only seem to be free and fair when Washingtons stooge is elected, is that how it works? i mean the US even declared that rat Juan Guido as the president of Venezuela, the clown didn't even take part in the election.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Any evidence Frank? Lula is popular, that head banger Bolsonaro tried to stage a Coup and was stopped, what the hell it has to do with Trump i have no idea.

My nephew is a Federal Judge

Plus Lula is a criminal

Plus they used the Venezuela voting machines

 

[Deadstick]

My nephew is a Federal Judge

Plus Lula is a criminal

Plus they used the Venezuela voting machines

Federal Judge where? Lula isn't a criminal the criminals are the people who overthrew him the first time for the Empire.

 

[Bleipriester]

If that happened in Venezuela, the hypocrites would cry and whine.
But it happened in Brazil, now a country where free opinion does no longer exist and people get 27 years of prison for nothing.

 

[Deadstick]

If that happened in Venezuela, the hypocrites would cry and whine.
But it happened in Brazil, now a country where free opinion does no longer exist and people get 27 years of prison for nothing.

He tried to overthrow the Government and with some elements of the military kill Lula. are you nuts?

 

[Bleipriester]

He tried to overthrow the Government and with some elements of the military kill Lula. are you nuts?

As far as I remember he called off the rioters.
The Lula regime on the other hand wages an open war against free speech and social media.

 

[Deadstick]

As far as I remember he called off the rioters.
The Lula regime on the other hand wages an open war against free speech and social media.

Bullshit! they overthrew Lula once before when they rigged the Court on trumped up charges because they couldn't beat him with votes, Lula came from humble background he was a metal worker and trade union man, that was his crime for the elites in Brazil.

 

[Bleipriester]

Bullshit! they overthrew Lula once before when they rigged the Court on trumped up charges because they couldn't beat him with votes, Lula came from humble background he was a metal worker and trade union man, that was his crime for the elites in Brazil.

Maybe he is a corrupt politician.
Don´t you know that South-american lefties are mostly incapable nutjobs that bankrupt the countries, then handing it out to the right wingers to fix it? The only one who enjoys my respect is the Venezuelan President. He does not throw the money out of the window. He was able to pay the rent for all the small and medium sized businesses in the country during the pandemic, despite the medieval siege.