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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Tom Embury-Dennis

Trump news - live: President warns ‘they’re not taking this White House’ and says he hopes Pence ‘comes through’

Photograph: AFP via Getty Images

Related video: Georgia election official debunks one Trump conspiracy theory after another

Donald Trump's hopes of escaping to play golf at his Turnberry resort in Scotland rather than attend the inauguration of Joe Biden in Washington on 20 January have been dashed by the country’s first minister, Nicola Stugeon, who says he will not be allowed to enter due to new lockdown measures.

Mr Trump returned to the campaign trail in Georgia on Monday night to stump for the Republican candidates in the state’s Senate runoffs on Tuesday, pushing his baseless election fraud narrative and pressuring his own deputy, vice president Mike Pence, over his role in certifying the outcome before Congress on Wednesday.

That came as a lie tracker maintained by The Washington Post found that the president had lied more than 29,500 times as of 5 November. In October 2020 alone, the month before the presidential election, Mr Trump was found to have told almost 4,000 lies. 

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