Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro has been found guilty of attempting to overturn the country’s 2022 election with a plot prosecutors say included plans to assassinate the president-elect in a bid to cling to power.

Now he risks more than 40 years in prison for what prosecutors described as his most egregious act of defiance yet: plotting to cling on to power after losing elections to leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da...

The verdict will certainly rankle his ally, US President Donald Trump, who has punished Brazil with high tariffs among other punitive measures over what he called a “witchhunt” against Bolsonaro.