Brazil’s Supreme Court will on Tuesday start passing judgment in the coup-plotting trial of former president Jair Bolsonaro, a case that has put the Latin American powerhouse in US President Donald Trump’s sights.

Bolsonaro risks over 40 years in prison if convicted of conspiring to cling onto power despite losing 2022 elections to leftist rival Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

A guilty verdict could also scupper his hopes of making a Trump-style comeback from a criminal conviction to the country’s top job.

The landmark case is the first of a former Brazilian president on coup charges.

Bolsonaro and his seven co-accused, including several former ministers and generals, should learn their fate by September 12.

The 70-year-old single-term president, who is under house arrest, will not be in c

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