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Here’s what is in the diary for today. The president has got no official public engagements listed, although, as they have done virtually every single day in January, the White House has asserted that, and I quote, Donald Trump “will work from early in the morning until late in the evening. He will make many calls and have many meetings.”
Vice president Mike Pence takes part in a briefing on inauguration security at Fema headquarters at 4pm.
Donald Trump has fallen out with his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and is refusing to pay the former New York mayor’s legal bills, it was reported, with the president feeling abandoned and frustrated during his last days in office.
Giuliani played a key role in Trump’s failed attempts to overturn the results of November’s presidential election through the courts. The lawyer mounted numerous spurious legal challenges, travelling to swing states won by Joe Biden, and spread false claims the vote was rigged.
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