The U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday said the U.S. will "respond accordingly" to what he called a "witch hunt" against former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, without specifying how.

The remarks came shortly after Brazil's Supreme Court sentenced Bolsonaro to 27 years and three months in prison after being convicted of plotting a coup to overturn the 2022 election.

The conviction was "unjustly ruled," Rubio said in a post on X late Thursday stateside, as "the political persecutions by sanctioned human rights abuser Alexandre de Moraes continue."

The U.S. Treasury Department on July 30 imposed sanctions on Brazilian Supreme Federal Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes , who has been a target of criticism by President Donald Trump for his handling of legal case

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