Trump live updates: Former president vows 2024 return to White House as Cheney warns of criminal penalties

US president Joe Biden will be visiting Poland on his trip to Europe for urgent talks with Nato and allies almost a month into Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.

Mr Biden will first travel to Brussels and then to Poland to meet with leaders there, press secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement Sunday night.

Poland is a crucial ally in the Ukraine crisis and is hosting thousands of American troops.

Mike Pence, the former president’s benevolent sidekick, is beginning to distance himself from Donald Trump as he takes increasingly overt steps toward a White House bid of his own.

Pence, a former congressman and Indiana governor, is working to craft a political identity independent of his former boss.

Last month, he called out Mr Trump by name, saying his former boss was “wrong” to insist that he had the power to unilaterally overturn the results of the 2020 election.

Although the Republican party remains largely dominated by the former president, Mr Pence, if becomes successful in navigating this moment, it could offer a model for Republicans to benefit from their work with Mr Trump without being tied to his most toxic behaviour, Associated Press reported.

QAnon conspiracy theorists believe that former president Donald Trump’s past mispronunciation of the word China as “Chy-na” is actually a secret code word meaning Ukraine.

According to the theory, a QAnon believer claims they “discovered” that there is a place in Ukraine named “Chy-na,” and believes Mr Trump was secretly referring to this location when he used the term “China virus”.

“With the support of everyone in this room, we will take back the House, we will take back the Senate and we will take back our country,” said Mr Trump, according to a report by Insider.

He continued: “And then most importantly in 2024, we are going to take back our beautiful White House.”At the Florida rally, he also repeated false claims that he had won the 2020 US presidential election.

Congresswoman Liz Cheney has said there could be criminal penalties for former president Donald Trump over the 6 January riots at Capitol Hill.

“I can tell you I have not learned a single thing since I have been on this committee that has made me less concerned or less worried about the gravity of the situation and the actions that President Trump took and also refused to take while the attack was underway,” Rep Cheney, who is vice-chair of the committee, said.