Trump lashes out at Harris and falsely claims no one was killed on January 6

Struggling in the polls and charged with running a lackluster presidential campaign, Donald Trump faced reporters on Thursday for an hour-long press conference that swiftly descended into a familiar mess of freewheeling invective, outlandish claims and outright lies.

But he seemed more exercised by the size of his audience.

Most Americans understand that Trump is the first former president to be criminally convicted, on 34 charges of falsification of business records, with sentencing due in New York on 16 September.

Despite it all, he remains the Republican nominee for president, running with JD Vance, the Ohio senator, against Harris and Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota.