Eduardo Bolsonaro jailed for seeking US interference in father’s trial

Brazil’s supreme court has sentenced Eduardo Bolsonaro to four years and two months in prison after finding him guilty of courting US interference in his father’s coup plot trial last year. The prosecutor general charged him with seeking help from the Trump administration by pushing for sanctions on the court’s justices and tariffs on Brazilian goods.

A former lawmaker who moved to the United States in 2025, Eduardo Bolsonaro has been active in building US support for his father, particularly from the Trump administration. He said after Tuesday’s conviction that he had not been properly notified about the court’s legal process and had previously told Reuters his efforts aimed to force the supreme court to punish officials he said were not complying with the constitution rather than to secure an acquittal.

His father, the former far-right president Jair Bolsonaro, is serving 27 years in prison for plotting a coup in 2022 after losing the election to Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

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