President Donald Trump departs after speaking with reporters on the South Lawn of the White House, on Thursday. Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP

President Donald Trump has for years told outlandish lies about elections in Democratic-dominated California. Trump made more false claims on the subject in a Fox News interview on Friday, prompting California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, to correctly note on social media that the president had told “an outright lie.”

Trump delivered the comments after a Fox host prodded him to disavow the idea of people on the political right taking revenge, other than through the peaceful means of voting, for the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

“He’d want revenge at the voter box,” Trump said, “but unfortunately we don’t have so many b

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