An old tweet by former President Joe Biden has put focus on his administration's positions on Venezuela and it's now-deposed leader, Nicolas Maduro.

Trump allies pushed claims in 2020 that tied voting machine companies to election fraud and involved Venezuela, claiming companies Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic had initially been created to rig elections in Venezuela in favor of former leader Hugo Chavez, and employed the same tactics to help Biden win.

Brian Cole allegedly told investigators in a confession that he wasn't targeting the joint session of Congress convening to certify Biden's election win.

Donald Trump launched an attack against former US presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden as he attended a Republican event. The US president bizarrely claimed that the election in which he was defeated by Mr Biden "was rigged", and said "nobody is worse" than Mr Obama.