Brazilian police have accused some his backers of involvement not just in a coup, but in an assassination plot

Brazil’s Federal Police have indicted former President Jair Bolsonaro and 36 other people on charges of attempting a coup to keep him in office after his electoral defeat in the 2022 elections.

Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro was formally accused of an attempted a coup over his 2022 election loss to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the country's police announced Thursday. The big picture: The proposed indictments against Bolsonaro and 36 others conclude the Brazilian federal police's two-year investigation into the fallout from the election that the populist leader never formally conceded,