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Brazil’s Bolsonaro To Stand Trial For Coup Attempt

The New York Times reports: Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s former president, will face trial on charges that he oversaw a vast scheme to cling to power after losing the 2022 elections, including an attempt to overturn the vote and a plot to assassinate the nation’s president-elect, the country’s supreme court decided on Wednesday. The ruling marks a significant effort to hold …

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Truth Social Sues Brazilian Judge In Bolsonaro Case

The New York Times reports: President Trump’s media company sued a Brazilian Supreme Court justice on Wednesday, accusing him of illegally censoring right-wing voices on social media. The unusual move was made all the more extraordinary by its timing: Just hours earlier, the Brazilian justice had received an indictment that would force him to decide whether to order the arrest …

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Jair Bolsonaro Charged With Plot To Poison Successor

The Associated Press reports: Brazil’s prosecutor-general on Tuesday formally charged former President Jair Bolsonaro with attempting a coup to stay in office after his 2022 election defeat, in a plot that included a plan to poison his successor and current President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and kill a Supreme Court judge. Prosecutor-General Paulo Gonet alleges that Bolsonaro and 33 …

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Jair Bolsonaro: Trump Invited Me To His Inauguration

Axios reports: Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro claimed Wednesday that President-elect Trump invited him to attend the inauguration — but it may be difficult for Bolsonaro to attend amid his ongoing his legal turmoil. Bolsonaro — like Trump — had refused to concede his election loss while his supporters rioted. Now, Bolsonaro takes inspiration from the president-elect’s impending White House …

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Bolsonaro Plots Return To Power With Trump’s Help

Reuters reports: Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro is planning a political comeback, anticipating support from U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, which may include using economic sanctions against current President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. “Trump is back, and it’s a sign we’ll be back too,” Bolsonaro, who has been barred from running for office …

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Brazil’s Bolsonaro Indicted Over 2022 Coup Attempt

The Associated Press reports: Brazil’s federal police said Thursday they indicted former President Jair Bolsonaro and 36 other people for allegedly attempting a coup to keep him in office after his defeat in the 2022 elections. Police said their sealed findings were being delivered Thursday to Brazil’s Supreme Court, which will refer them to Prosecutor-General Paulo Gonet, who decides either …

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Bolsonaro Allies Seek To Reverse Brazil’s Ban On X

Reuters reports: A conservative party in Brazil is seeking to reverse a judge’s ban on Elon Musk’s X platform, potentially escalating the months-long feud over censorship and hate speech in South America’s largest country. Partido Novo’s challenge of the decision by Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes barring the popular social media site will be taken up by another top …

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Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro Indicted For Money Laundering

The Associated Press reports: Brazil’s Federal Police have indicted former President Jair Bolsonaro for money laundering and criminal association in connection with undeclared diamonds the far-right leader received from Saudi Arabia during his time in office, according to a source with knowledge of the accusations. This is Bolsonaro’s second indictment since leaving office, following another in May for allegedly falsifying …

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Brazil’s Bolsonaro Hails Musk Amid Legal Troubles

Bloomberg News reports: Former Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro praised Elon Musk as a free-speech advocate, in his latest effort to build opposition to the country’s Supreme Court as his legal troubles mount. Bolsonaro and his supporters painted the court as overzealous and anti-democratic at a rally in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday as they railed against Judge Alexandre de Moraes, …

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NYT: Brazil’s Bolsonaro Fled To Hungarian Embassy As Authorities Closed In His Plot To Orchestrate A Coup

The New York Times reports: On Feb. 8, Brazil’s federal police confiscated former President Jair Bolsonaro’s passport and arrested a pair of his former aides on accusations that they had plotted a coup after Mr. Bolsonaro lost the 2022 presidential election. Four days later, Mr. Bolsonaro was at the entrance to the Hungarian Embassy in Brazil, waiting to be let …

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Jair Bolsonaro Indicted On COVID Vax Fraud Charges

The BBC reports: Brazilian police have formally accused former President Jair Bolsonaro of fraud relating to his Covid vaccination records, paving the way for possible criminal charges in the Supreme Court. His health records say he received the vaccine in Sao Paulo in 2021. But an investigation later found he was not in the city at the time. Mr Bolsonaro, …

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Brazil Charges Jair Bolsonaro With Inciting Insurrection

The New York Times reports: Former President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil oversaw a broad conspiracy to hold on to power regardless of the results of the 2022 election, including personally editing a proposed order to arrest a Supreme Court justice and call new elections after he lost, according to new accusations by Brazilian federal police unveiled on Thursday. Mr. Bolsonaro …

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Brazil’s Bolsonaro Faked His COVID Vaccine Records

Reuters reports: The vaccination records of Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro are false, the country’s comptroller general’s office said on Thursday after an investigation regarding the alleged tampering of information on his COVID-19 vaccination card. The records show that Bolsonaro, a COVID-19 skeptic who publicly opposed the vaccine, received a dose of the immunizer in a public healthcare center in …

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Former Top Bolsonaro Aide Will Testify Against Him

Reuters reports: Brazil’s Supreme Court on Saturday authorized a cooperation deal between former President Jair Bolsonaro’s former aide and the country’s Federal Police, tightening the vice on the ex-leader who faces multiple criminal probes that could land him in jail. He has already been ruled politically ineligible until 2030 by Brazil’s federal electoral court. The aide, Mauro Cid, has been …

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Brazil’s Bolsonaro Accused Of Ordering Vote Tampering

Reuters reports: Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro faced mounting legal pressure on Friday, as police probed his personal finances and communications while a jailed former aide mulled testifying about his role in a Rolex-peddling scheme allegedly masterminded by the ex-president. On Thursday morning, in a televised congressional probe into the Jan. 8 insurrection, a computer programmer told lawmakers that Bolsonaro …

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Bolsonaro Banned From Holding Office For Eight Years

Bloomberg News reports: A majority of Brazil’s electoral court voted to bar Jair Bolsonaro from public office for eight years in what amounts to the first major legal rebuke of the former president, whose efforts to sow doubt about the 2022 election have now put his political future at risk. Four of the court’s seven judges said that the right-wing …

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Brazilian Cops: Bolsonaro Faked Vax Status To Enter US

The Washington Post reports: Brazilian police are investigating whether former president Jair Bolsonaro tried to deceive American authorities into believing, incorrectly, that he had been vaccinated against the coronavirus so he could enter the United States, authorities said Wednesday. Federal police conducted a search and seizure operation at Bolsonaro’s Brasília address early Wednesday and arrested several close associates, including a …

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Bolsonaro Returns To Brazil After Months In Florida

Reuters reports: Brazil’s far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro returned from three months in the United States on Thursday and was welcomed back by hundreds of chanting supporters at the Brasilia airport before heading straight into meetings with his political party. The turnout was considerably smaller than expected by police, and a minister in leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula’s cabinet called …

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Brazil’s Bolsonaro Launches Trump-Style Merch Store

Reuters reports: With its modest selection of wooden chopping boards, beer glasses and coffee cups, the newly launched Bolsonaro Store website offers fans of the pugnacious former president the opportunity to invest in his political future and take home a Bolsonaro-branded commemorative keepsake. “Our dream is more alive than ever,” reads a wooden desk statuette that features Bolsonaro’s silhouette, available …

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Jair Bolsonaro To Speak Next Month At CPAC In DC

The Washington Examiner reports: Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has agreed to speak at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in March, a major get for the chairman Matt Schlapp. Bolsonaro, often dubbed the Donald Trump of South America, could lay out his plans to return to power in a campaign against President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who won …

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