The Brazilian Supreme Court convicted Eduardo Bolsonaro, the son of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, on Wednesday of illegally asking for help from the United States government during his father’s trial last year.

The elder Bolsonaro was convicted in September 2025 and sentenced to over 27 years in prison for attempting a coup after he lost the 2022 election to current president Lula da Silva. Eduardo was charged last September with lobbying the U.S. government to impose sanctions and tariffs on Brazil to secure lenience for his father, Reuters reported Wednesday. (RELATED: Five Republicans Join Democrats To Terminate Trump’s Brazil Tariffs)

We have received through the press the news of yet another bogus charge brought by Alexandre de Moraes’s lackeys in the Attorney General’s Office, this time under the allegation of “coercion.” On this matter, it is important to clarify:

1. We live in the United States, and… pic.twitter.com/oX9EDTHtpB

— Eduardo Bolsonaro🇧🇷 (@BolsonaroSP) September 22, 2025

In a March 2025 video posted to social media, the younger Bolsonaro called the Vice-President of Brazil’s Supreme Court, Alexander de Moraes and those around him “small, vain, jelly-like men,” and vowed to dedicated himself to securing “justice” for “the hostages of January 8th and other persecuted individuals who were part of the Bolsonaro government and are paying the price for the cruelty of a psychopath.”

Supporters of Jair Bolsonaro stormed the Three Powers Plaza in Brasilia, Brazil’s capital, in January 2023 after his election loss. According to Brazilian state news agency Agencia Brasil, “over 1,900 people” were arrested.