The Brazilian judge overseeing former president Jair Bolsonaro’s trial on coup charges has vowed to ignore US sanctions and press ahead with a verdict in the case of the Donald Trump ally.
Alexandre de Moraes said Brazil’s supreme court would not “bend to cowardly and fruitless threats” and would carry out its constitutional mission, in his first comments since Washington imposed an asset freeze and visa ban on him, which are normally reserved for serious human rights violators.
“In particular, in this second half of the year, it will reach the judgments and the conclusions of . . . the important penal actions related to the attempted coup of January 8,” he said in remarks at the opening of a supreme court session in Brasília.
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