Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro was convicted of plotting a military coup to overturn the country's 2022 election in a majority ruling by the Brazilian Supreme Court on Thursday.

The latest: Bolsonaro's lawyers said in a media statement after he was sentenced to more than 27 years in prison that they would appeal and called the prison term "excessive and disproportionate."

The big picture: President Trump, who demanded that Brazil drop criminal charges against Bolsonaro in a letter that threatened to impose a 50% tariff on Brazilian imports, said he found it "surprising that could happen, very much like they tried to do with me," comparing the verdict to prosecutions he faced that were dropped after his 2024 election win, per a pool report. • Trump did not immediately answer t

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