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A curated breakdown of the key moments and must-see perspectives from the trial of former President Jair Bolsonaro — accused of plotting a coup to stay in power
The Brazilian Report
June 11, 2025
🤯 Not your usual courtroom drama: Bolsonaro's strategy of normalizing the absurd
Check out clips from Jair Bolsonaro’s Supreme Court interrogation, in which the former president admitted that he had discussed exceptional measures with military leaders in the waning days of his presidency.
By his own account, the measures included scenarios that would have overturned the 2022 election that brought leftist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva back to power.
Bolsonaro denies accusations that he led an attempt to subvert democracy, but he showed no shame in saying the idea had been seriously proposed to military commanders, as reporter Isabela Cruz tells in the video below.
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