Michael: 'Brazil’s Supreme Court upholds the rule of law – in America, it doesn’t matter'
MSNBC·2025-09-13 00:55
The former president of Brazil, Jaer Balssonaro, is facing 27 years in prison for his attempt to overturn an election. Balsinaro was convicted by Brazil's Supreme Court yesterday for conspiring against democracy and attempting a coup in the wake of his 2022 election defeat, creating quite the contrast to the US, where Donald Trump managed to dodge almost all accountability for fermenting the big lie and the January 6th insurrection. A new op-ed in the New York Times puts it rather plainly.The Brazilian Supr ...