Trump news - live: President posts ‘most important’ 46-minute speech filled with false voter fraud claims

Here’s Gino Spocchia on the president’s vengeful and short-termist Twitter attacks on GOP governors, which risks alienating support ahead of the Georgia runoffs on 5 January.

Here’s Greg Evans for Indy100 on the president notching up as many censored tweets for undermining democracy as he scored EC votes from the states.

232 is the magic number.

Trump’s White House press secretary has been on Fox and Friends this morning bemoaning liberal media sexism targeting conservative women while their Democratic counterparts are treated to “glowing profiles” being written about them.

I feel the comment below this clip amply sums up the matters.

The network has otherwise been engaged in hawking Christmas merchandise for right-wing relatives.

Oh Judge Jeanine…

Here’s Ellie Abraham from Indy100 to explain the story behind an utterly glorious headline.

Louise Hall has the latest from the popular infectious diseases expert who is imploring Americans to take the coronavirus vaccine as soon as it is available to help the country get back on its feet.

Doug Ducey has taken to Twitter to answer the president’s baseless criticism with a thread cooly and dispassionately defending his state’s electoral system.

“That’s the law. I’ve sworn an oath to uphold it, and I take my responsibility seriously,” he concludes.

The president-elect is planning to reverse a number of the Trump administration’s anti-LGBT+ policies when he takes office on 20 January.

Biden is expected to use executive orders to reverse several policies implemented by the Trump administration, according to the AP.

He is planning on lifting the Trump administration’s ban on transgender people serving in the military and its “freedom to discriminate” rules, which allow healthcare providers to discriminate based on religious beliefs.

Biden will also reinstate guidance from the Obama administration, in which he served as vice president, which will allow transgender students to access facilities in accordance with their gender identity.

James Crump has this report.

Rick Wilson, the outspoken co-founder of the Lincoln Project, has lashed out at Republicans who backed Donald Trump during his term in the White House, suggesting that they will increasingly distance themselves from the president in spite of his “absurd, doomed lawsuits”.

In a strongly-worded op-ed for The Daily Beast, the former Republican strategist writes that “the dark is rising for Trump’s sycophants, toadies and enablers”.

“Their tough-guy acts and f***-your-feelings s***-talk have become a furious whine of complaints and recriminations as a toxic slurry of rage and despair has left a stinging bile in the back of their throats that won’t go away. Trump lost, and they can’t spin their way past it," he says.

Stuti Mishra has more.

President-elect Joe Biden’s Twitter following has skyrocketed in recent weeks, while the departing Trump’s numbers have seen a steady and sustained decline since shortly after the declaration of the election results.

Biden has added about 1.15m followers to take him to a total of more than 20m since the 3 November vote.

And while his overall following remains at a much higher level, Trump has lost about 134,000 followers to bring his total down to about 88.8m, according to the website Factbase, which tracks the president’s Twitter activity. 

Namita Singh reports.

The president’s daughter and her husband Jared Kushner are unlikely to be welcomed back into the Manhattan social whirl from whence they came after their time in government has passed and the Big Apple is already voicing its hostility to the prospect of their return.

Graeme Massie reports.