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The Guardian - US
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Shrai Popat in Washington

DHS secretary doubles down on Trump’s baseless 2020 election claims

man in suit speaks at lectern as reporters raise hands
The homeland security secretary, Markwayne Mullin, speaks to reporters in the Indian Treaty Room at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington on Friday. Photograph: Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP

Markwayne Mullin, the US homeland security secretary, doubled down on Donald Trump’s unsubstantiated election claims on Friday amid his agency’s efforts to support the president’s agenda.

Trump used a review compiled by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as the basis of many of his unsubstantiated claims on Thursday during his televised primetime address to the nation.

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