Brazil’s Supreme Court vowed Tuesday not to bend to pressure from Washington in deciding the fate of far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro, a Donald Trump ally on trial for allegedly plotting a coup.

Kicking off a five-day process of passing judgment in the final stage of the trial, presiding judge Alexandre Moraes said Bolsonaro had aimed to install a “real dictatorship.”

Bolsonaro, 70, risks a prison sentence of more than four decades if convicted of conspiring to cling to power after losing 2022 elections to leftist rival Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, now in office.

The trial of Bolsonaro, who claims to be the victim of political persecution, has soured Brasilia’s relations with President Trump, whose administration slapped a 50 percent tariff on some Brazilian exports over what he

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