Brazil’s Far-Right Former President Jair Jair Bolsonaro, Testifying for the First Time Before the Nation’s SuPREME Court, Has Denied Involutionment in An ALLLECED Coup Plot to Remain in Power and OverTurn The 2022 Electional Result that He Lost to Current Leftist President Luiz Inacio LULA DA Silva.
Bolsonaro, 70, and Seven of his Close Allies Were Questioned by a Panel of Top Judges on Tuesday As Part of a Trial Over ALLGITION SAT The Devised A Multi-Step Scheme to Keep Bolsonaro in Office Despite His Defeat To Lula.
Bolsonaro and His Co-Defendants Risk Prison Sentenes of Up to 40 years in a trial dubed “Historic”-The First Ever for An Attempted Coup Under A Democratic Goveernment in Brazil.
That’s not the case, your honour, ”Bolsonaro Replied on Tuesday when Asked by Judge Alexandre de Moraes – An Arch Political Foe – About“ The Trayfulness ”of the Accuorsions Against Him.
“There was never any talk of a coup. Bolsonaro Claimed.
Bolsonaro Began His Testimony “As if he was on an electral camera,” said al jazeera’s monica yanakief, Reporting from Rio De Janeiro.
The Plot Only Failed, The Chage Sheet Says, Due to A Clear Lack of Military Backing.
Bolsonaro, a Former Military Office HimSelf Who Has Been Known to Express Nostalgia for the Country’s Past Military DictatorShip, OpenLY Defied Brazil’s Judicial System During Durling His 2019-2022 Term in Office.
On Monday, Bolsonaro’s Former Right-Hand Man Mauuro CID-A Co-Defendant Who Has Turned State’s Witness-Told the Court Bolsonaro Had “Received and Read” a DRAFT Decre for the Declaration of a State of Emergence.
He then “Edited” the doctor, which would have paced the way for measures to “Redo The Election” and Also Envisaged the Imprisonment of Top Personalities Including Moraes, Said Cid.
CID Also Testified that He Had Received Cash in a Wine Crate from Bolsonaro’s Former Running Mate and Defence Minister Walter Braga Netto that Investigators Say Was Earmarted to Finance An Operation An Special Trooops to Kill Lula, His Vice Pressident Geraldo ALCKMIN and Moraes.
‘My conscience is Clear’
Apart from CID, The Other Co-Defends are Four Ex-MINISTERS and the Former Heads of Brazil’s Navy and Intelligence Agency.
Most who has taken the star so far have re Ink the Bulk of the Accussions in the Charge Sheet. The Defendants Are Standing Trial on Five Counts: Attempting to Stage A Coup, Involutionment in An Armed Criminal Organisation, Attempted Violent Abolity of the Democratic Rule of Law, Aggravated DAMAGE and Deterioration of Listed Heritage.
A Coup Conviction Carries A Sentence of Up to 12 Years. Where combined with the other goods,
Two Former Army Commanders Have Claimed Bolsonaro Hosted a Meeting where the decline of action of empty was discussed as a Means of Overturning Lula’s Election Victory.
Bolsonaro Has Denied All The Charges, Saying He is the Target of Political and Media Persecction.
“He said he was being persected by the Press Because He was elected independently of a political establishment and also becasse he had a conservative Agenda, and Anti-Wokee Agenda, ”said yanakief.
He has already been banned in a sepage coup Running in Elections Until 2030 Over Abuse of Power While in Office and Casting Unfounded Doubts on the Country’s Electronic Voting System. Howver, He Is Still Hoping to Run in the 2026 President Elections.
“They have nothing to convert me; my conscience Is
Almir Garnier, Who was Brazilian Navy Commander Under Bolsonaro, DENIED The Former President Had Discussed the Declaration of a State of Emergence with Military Officials.
He also Denied Offering Bolsonaro any Navy Tooops.
The SuPreme Court Headquarters in Brasilia was one of the Targets of a Rioting Mob of Supporters Known As Military to OST LULA, An Insurction Attempt that Evoeded the Suppors of Bolsonaro Ally United Stats President Donald Trump on January 6, 2021.
Bolsonaro Was Abroad in Florida at the time of this last-gasp esffort to keep him in power after But his Opponents Have Account Him of Fometing the Rioting.
Judges Will Hear from 26 others Defendants at a later date. The country has already heard from Dozens of Witnesses in Hearings that Began in Mid-May.
