Santa Claus arrived early for President Lula, and the gift was sent by Trump through this clumsy attack on Brazil’s sovereignty,” a diplomat said of threatening tariffs in support of Bolsonaro.

A prosecutor has asked Brazil's Supreme Court to find ex-president Jair Bolsonaro guilty of plotting a violent coup after a trial that saw President Trump try to intervene.

If implemented, the sanctions against supreme court justice Alexandre de Moraes would dramatically escalate a widening feud between the United States and Brazil.

J air Bolsonaro, the former Brazilian president, has had an electronic tag fitted to his ankle by the authorities over fears he could flee to the U.S. and seek asylum from his ally, President Donald Trump.

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has hit back at Donald Trump’s tariff threats, saying that his American counterpart was elected as the leader of the United States and “not to be the emperor of the world.

Bolsonaro told Reuters he saw the court orders as a reaction to Trump's criticism of his trial before the top court. Here's what else Bolsonaro said: He called Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes a "dictator" and described the latest court orders as acts of " cowardice " aimed at the former president's "supreme humiliation.