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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nDemocrats have also attacked US Attorney-General William Barr, accusing him of “misleading” them with an earlier summary of the report’s findings regarding whether Mr Trump obstructed justice.<\/p>\n
Mr Barr held a news conference before the report was made public in which he backed the president.<\/p>\n
The report has long been viewed as a potential tool to impeach the president but the House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said this would not be “worthwhile at this point”.<\/p>\n
“Very frankly, there is an election in 18 months and the American people will make a judgement,” he told CNN.<\/p>\n
How has Mr Trump responded?<\/h2>\n
Speaking at an event for veterans, Mr Trump said he was having a “good day” – adding that there was “no collusion” and “no obstruction”.<\/p>\n
Representatives for the president have also reiterated his view that the investigation was a “hoax” and called for reprisal inquiries.<\/p>\n
“President Trump has been fully and completely exonerated yet again,” Mr Trump’s 2020 campaign manager Brad Parscale said in a statement.<\/p>\n
“Now the tables have turned, and it’s time to investigate the liars who instigated this sham investigation into President Trump, motivated by political retribution and based on no evidence whatsoever.”<\/p>\n
His comments followed a stream of social media posts by the president on Thursday regarding the report’s release.<\/p>\n
In one tweet, he said he had the right to “end the whole witch hunt” and fire Mr Mueller had he wanted to.<\/p>\n
How have the Russians reacted?<\/h2>\n
Russia has dismissed the findings of the report, with Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov saying it contained “no new information”.<\/p>\n
“As a whole the report as before does not present any reasonable proof at all that Russia allegedly meddled in the electoral process in the US,” Mr Peskov told reporters on Friday.<\/p>\n
What’s the Democrat game plan?<\/h2>\n![\"Analysis](\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/cpsprodpb\/1209A\/production\/_106028837_jonsopel-nc.png\")
<\/span><\/figure>\nI think that the wider strategy of the Democrats is that they would like to see a president going into 2020 a bit wounded, a bit weakened.<\/p>\n
The danger of going down the impeachment route is that all that it results in is uniting the Republican party.<\/p>\n
For that reason I think the Democratic leadership would much rather knock the president around a bit than go down a route which would almost certainly end in failure and almost certainly be counter-productive.<\/p>\n
And for all the questions, doubts, contradictions, sleights of hand, Mr Trump emerges with two key headlines: Mueller says there was no collusion; the attorney-general says there was no obstruction of justice.<\/p>\n
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<\/span><\/figure>\nI think that the wider strategy of the Democrats is that they would like to see a president going into 2020 a bit wounded, a bit weakened.<\/p>\n
The danger of going down the impeachment route is that all that it results in is uniting the Republican party.<\/p>\n
For that reason I think the Democratic leadership would much rather knock the president around a bit than go down a route which would almost certainly end in failure and almost certainly be counter-productive.<\/p>\n
And for all the questions, doubts, contradictions, sleights of hand, Mr Trump emerges with two key headlines: Mueller says there was no collusion; the attorney-general says there was no obstruction of justice.<\/p>\n
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