Democratic senator says Trump speech likely to be more ‘election denialism’ from ‘world’s most famous sore loser’ – as it happened

The brief

We are wrapping up here and moving our live coverage of the second Trump administration to a fresh blog, focused on the president’s much anticipated primetime address, widely expected to concern the 2020 election he just can’t admit he lost. Please join us there for updates and analysis before, during and after the speech. Here are the latest developments as we sign off here: Donald Trump’s wildly false claim that the CHIPS Act, a bipartisan law signed by his predecessor Joe Biden, required firms receiving funding to be run by transgender executives, baffled the law’s author, and set off a scramble to figure out where this entirely untrue claim came…