Former Brazilian far right president Bolsonaro was sentenced to more than 27 years behind bars for trying to overthrow the election by using the military to attempt a coup d'é·tat after he lost in 2022.

Trump had threaten Brazil with huge tariffs if they continued to prosecute his far-right Brazilian ally, but his attempts at bullying them failed.

Good for Brazil.

The Guardian reports :

Justices Cármen Lúcia Antunes Rocha and Cristiano Zanin ruled on Thursday that Bolsonaro – a former paratrooper who was elected president in 2018 – was guilty of seeking to forcibly cling to power after losing the 2022 election, meaning four of the five judges involved in the trial had found Brazil’s former leader guilty.

Announcing Bolsonaro’s sentence for crimes including coup d’etat and violently a

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