Donald Trump begins widely anticipated address to the nation – live updates

The brief

MS Now reports that the White House hosted a briefing for about two dozen pro-Trump conspiracy theorists and election deniers this week, led by the conservative lawyer Cleta Mitchell, who was on Donald Trump’s notorious phone call with Georgia’s top election official on 2 January 2001, in which the president asked for 11,780 votes for Joe Biden to be tossed out, which would have enabled Trump to win the state’s 2020 presidential election by a single vote. One of the participants told the broadcaster the presentation “was basically all the media reporting that John Solomon and others have done already.” Solomon, a former Associated Press reporter turned far-right media figure,…