Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been found guilty of plotting a coup to overturn the country's 2022 election and has been sentenced to more than 27 years in prison.
Here's what they're "getting him" for via CNN:
Bolsonaro has been convicted of plotting a coup d'état, taking part in an armed criminal organization, attempting to abolish Brazil's democratic order by force, committing violent acts against state institutions and damaging protected public property during the storming of government buildings by his supporters on January 8, 2023.
Part of the coup plot, prosecutors alleged, involved a plan to potentially use explosives, weapons of war or poison to assassinate leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, his Vice President Geraldo Alckmin and Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who oversaw Bolsonaro's trial.
Bolsonaro and other defendants in the trial had denied wrongdoing.
The evidence against Bolsonaro largely centered on how he tried to stay in power after losing the presidential election in 2022 to Lula da Silva. Federal police said Bolsonaro had "full knowledge" of a plan to overturn the election results, pressure the military to intervene, and even create a parallel "crisis management office" to run the government.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio chimed in:
Remember, this is the "Brazilian Trump" ... and they jailed him.
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