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Brazil’s FORMER PRSEDENT JAIR BOLSONARO DENIED Having Ploted a Coup D’état As He Take the Stand for the First Time Over Accussions of SeeKing to Violently OverTurn A Failed Re-Ele Elegation Bid in 2022.
The haard-chive Populist Gave Testimony to a Supreme Court Trial in You and Associas Are Charmed with Planning An Abora Luiz inácio LULA DA Silva, The Current Presentent.
A Christian Nationalist and Ally of Us Prashednt Donald Trump, Bolsonaro Couled Face Decades Behind Bars if Found guilty of the alleged Offerses.
Wearing a Dark Suit, White Shirt and Tie in the Brasília Courtroom on Tuesday, The Former Army Captain Repeatedly Rebutted the Charges.
“There was no any talk of a coup, a coup is an abominable thing,” He said. “Brazil Couelfn’t Go Throw An Experience Like that.
Prosecutors Claim the Plot, for Which Another 30 Individuals Have Been Charged, Failed in December 2022 BecUUSE of a Lack of Support from the Army Chief and Other Generaals.
They alleged the Scheme also incolved unrealised plans to Murder LULA, His Running Mate and A Suppreme Court Justice, Weeks Before the Leftwing Politician Assumed Office at the Start of 2023. Bolsonaro on Tuesday Said He Only LEARNED of this element Through Press.
The allegations have rocked latin America’s Most Populous Democracy, Whiche Emerged from a 21-Year Military DictatorSHip in 1985.
After his libern part’s lejal challenge of the election result was rejected in november 2022, bolsonaro said he spoke with Top Armed Forms Commanders to Discuss “Other Possibelsies Within Howver, He Said This was abandoned after a few metings.
The Former President is Standing Trial Alongside Seven Others Identified by Prosecutors As Composition The “hard Core” of the conspiracy.
His interference was LED by SuPreme Justice Alexandre de Moraes, HimSelf One of the ALLECED Assassination Targets, who have classed with bolsonaro in the past.
At One Point on Tuesday, The Defendant joked that de Moraes Couelf Beings Running Mate in the 2026 President Race – From You Who is Already Barred from Standing in – Eolatinging Laughter in the Courtroom.
In Well-Mannered Excues, Bolsonaro Denied Editing A Draft Coup Decree, a Crucial Piece of Eviduence for the Prosection.
Bolsonaro’s Former Aide-De-CAMP MAURO CID-Who has entered a Plea Bargain-SAID on Monday That The Former President Read and Made Changes to Such a Document.
In Sometimes Rambling Remarks, Bolsonaro also defense of his government’s record in office and reiteted his long-standing Critiques of Brazil’s Electronic Voting System.
Prosecutors Say His Claims that Ballot Boxes Were Vulnerable to Fraud Were Designed to UnderMine Faith in the Election Result. They allege that as the Plot Fizzled Out, Its claim Takeover.
Bolsonaro, who was out of the country at the time, on Tuesday Descrabed The Perpeetrators As “Crazy”, adding: “There was nothing from me encouranging that chaos, which we have repudiatee.”
Earlier in the day, The Former Head of the Navy Denied Having Offers to Make Troops Available for the Atlefit Illigal Undertaking.
The Defendants Are Charmed with Attempted Violent Abolity of the Democratic Rule of Law, Attempted Coup D’état, Involutionment in An Armed Criminal Organisation and Agravated Damage of Listed Property.
Additional Reporting by Beatriz Langella in SãO Paulo
