Donald Trump blasts media in first broadside since Mueller probe ended

Donald Trump has broken his silence after he was cleared of collusion with Russia, and the US President’s ire was aimed directly at the media.

US President Donald Trump has gone on the offensive against the mainstream media, his first since being cleared of collusion with the Russians — calling journalists “the Enemy of the People.”

“The Mainstream Media is under fire and being scorned all over the World as being corrupt and FAKE,” the president said in his Twitter broadside.

“For two years they pushed the Russian Collusion Delusion when they always knew there was No Collusion. They truly are the Enemy of the People and the Real Opposition Party!”

Things are looking up for Donald Trump. Picture: AFP

According to the New York Post., Special counsel Robert Mueller found no collusion between Team Trump and Russia — and he didn’t uncover enough evidence to justify charging the president with obstruction of justice, Attorney-General William Barr wrote in a four-page summary on Sunday.

Mr Trump called the revelations “a complete and total exoneration” and blasted Mr Mueller’s probe as “an illegal take-down that failed”.

But Mr Mueller’s team drew no conclusions about obstruction of justice.

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The letter from Attorney-General William Barr to Congress on the conclusions reached by special counsel Robert Mueller in the Russia probe. Picture: AP

Mr Barr and his deputy, Rod Rosenstein, determined that Mr Mueller’s investigators had insufficient evidence to establish that Mr Trump committed that offence.

The Attorney-General noted, however, that Mueller’s report states that “while this report does not conclude that the president committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him” on the obstruction matter.

House Democrats are pressing the Justice Department to release Mr Mueller’s full report even as Republicans called for them to “move on” from the Russia investigation.

Donald Trump has long said there was no collusion. Picture: AP

Robert Mueller finalised his Russia report. Picture: Getty Images/AFP

Mr Trump accused those responsible for launching the sweeping probe that consumed the first two years of his presidency of “treasonous things against our country” and said they “certainly will be looked into.”

The president said the release of the full report “wouldn’t bother me at all,” though he added that the decision to do so would be up to Mr Barr.

US Attorney-General William Barr released a report to Congress. Picture: Getty Images/AP

Six House Democratic committee chairmen wrote to Mr Barr that his summary is “not sufficient” and asked to have the full report by April 2.

They also want to begin receiving the underlying evidence the same day.

The information is “urgently needed by our committees to perform their duties under the Constitution,” they wrote, implying that the information would be subpoenaed if it is not provided by the deadline.

— with the New York Post