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Joe Biden on Thursday forcefully denounced Donald Trump for spreading a “web of lies” about the legitimacy of the 2020 election in a desperate attempt to cling to power.
The US president condemned his predecessor’s efforts as a “failed” pursuit, but one that continues to threaten the foundations of American democracy one year after the insurrection at the US Capitol when extremist Trump supporters tried, on 6 January last year, to overturn the official certification of Biden’s presidential election victory.
