Bolsonaro’s Official Legal Inquiry Complicates Coup Narrative, Defense Argues

Brazil’s former Attorney-General Bruno Bianco testified that ex-President Jair Bolsonaro sought legal guidance days after losing the 2022 election, asking whether challenges to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s narrow victory (50.9% to 49.1%) were feasible. This meeting, attended by military commanders and Defense Minister Paulo Sérgio Nogueira, forms a central dispute in the coup investigation. […]