U.S. warns of response to ‘witch hunt’ after Brazil’s Bolsonaro sentenced to 27 years
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.”
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