The Brazilian judge overseeing former president Jair Bolsonaro’s trial on coup charges has vowed to ignore US sanctions and press ahead with a verdict in the case of the Donald Trump ally. Alexandre de Moraes said Brazil’s supreme court would not “bend to cowardly and fruitless threats” and would carry out its constitutional mission,

Donald Trump has stepped up his diplomatic assault on the government of Brazil's left- wing president, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva. He's signed an executive order which brings total tariffs on Brazilian goods to fifty percent.