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Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro

Lula says Trump would be put on trial in Brazil if January 6 riots took place there

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Brazil's president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva speaks in Brasília on 13 August 2025. Photograph: Adriano Machado/Reuters

The Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has hit back at Donald Trump’s campaign against the South American country’s judiciary, claiming the US president would be put on trial in Brazil had the January 6 US Capitol attacks taken place there.

Trump has triggered what some experts call the greatest ever diplomatic rupture between the US and Brazil by slapping 50% tariffs on Brazilian imports and sanctioning a supreme court judge in an attempt to help his far-right ally, ex-president Jair Bolsonaro, avoid prison for allegedly trying to stage a coup after he lost the 2022 election to Lula.

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