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Trump ‘refuses to attend Biden’s inauguration’

Donald Trump will never accept he lost the election and could fail to attend Joe Biden’s inauguration in protest, it has been reported.

Biden was officially named as the US President-elect on Saturday, after more than four days of counting votes.

Kamala Harris has now also become the country’s first female, first black and first Asian Vice President.

Trump has continued to deny his defeat in the election, claiming on Saturday that he won ‘71,000,000 legal votes, the most EVER for a sitting President’.

He reportedly learned of his defeat while golfing and then spent hours holed up in the White House. Sources close to the White House now say he won’t attend Biden’s inauguration as he believes it will be an ‘insult to democracy’.

A source told the Daily Mail: ‘He has no concession speech ready and no intention of recognising Joe Biden’s presidency.’

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considers stated that the atmosphere inside the West Wing had been ‘manic, exuberant, energised and toxic’ since Biden was announced as the election winner.

A source claimed Trump was being ‘egged on’ by his children and aides, while others around him have been too fearful to suggest he accepts his defeat and begins to ‘consider life post-presidency’.

They went on: ‘In his mind, he never looked past election day because he is superstitious and he thought it was bad luck. Now he’s hell-bent on creating a narrative that the election was fraudulent and so Biden is not legitimate.’

Another source added: ‘He is in fighting mode and is saying Biden would be a phoney President and that he won’t turn up on January 20 [inauguration day] as that would be an insult to democracy.’ Outgoing presidents traditionally welcome their successor to the White House and pose for photos with them in the Oval Office.

They then attend the swearing-in ceremony at the front of the US Capitol building in Washington DC. But Trump is refusing to move into the next steps, and his campaign team has launched legal action in key battleground states, including Georgia, Michigan and Pennsylvania, in an attempt to overturn Biden’s win.

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