Trump says he ‘will never concede’

Having come closer than ever to accepting the 2020 election results on Monday night, by officially launching the transition process, Donald Trump again took to Twitter in the small hours of Tuesday to insist that he “will never concede”.

The president reiterated his unsubstantiated claims that the 3 November vote had been “the most corrupt election”, saying he will keep challenging the result in court and hitting out at “fake ballots and ‘Dominion’” - a reference to a brand of voting machines.

Twitter once again flagged the post almost immediately as “disputed”, hiding it with a warning from people’s feeds.

It came just hours after Mr Trump had tweeted that “in the best interest of our Country, I am recommending that [GSA administrator] Emily [Murphy] and her team do what needs to be done with regard to initial protocols, and have told my team to do the same.”

However, he also mentioned in those posts that: “Our case STRONGLY continues, we will keep up the good fight, and I believe we will prevail!"

His comment was seen as a significant change in his administration’s stance, after the US General Services Administration (GSA), the federal agency that provides resources to presidents-elect for a smooth transition, said it was finally lifting its unprecedented block on the incoming administration, releasing funds for the Biden-Harris transition team to access.