| Brazil’s supreme court ruled the right-wing former president attempted a military coup to reverse his 2022 election loss, a plot that included plans to assassinate President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the man who defeated him. President Donald Trump, a Bolsonaro ally and friend, imposed tariffs on Brazilian products and sanctions on individual justices in July to pressure them to drop the prosecution, which he called a witch hunt. | 
