Der Richter, der sich Trump widersetzte

By Jesus Mesa | Politics Reporter

The most powerful man in Brazil’s fight to protect democracy isn’t the president, a general, or a tech mogul — it’s a bald, blunt-speaking Supreme Court justice who once hacked through illegal marijuana fields with a machete. Now, Alexandre de Moraes finds himself at the center of a global firestorm as he presides over the explosive coup trial of former President Jair Bolsonaro.

Once labeled the „Trump of the Tropics,“ Bolsonaro stands accused of plotting to overturn his 2022 election loss to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, with alleged plans that included the assassination or kidnapping of de Moraes himself. If convicted, Bolsonaro faces decades in prison.

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In which he was targeted for murder. Let that sink in, a former president planned to murder the same judge presiding his case