Donald Trump’s plans for re-election have been buoyed since the attorney general released a summary of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s completed report. The findings cleared Mr Trump of conspiring with Russia to steal the US 2016 election. But the long-awaited report stops short of exonerating Mr Trump of obstruction of justice.

However, US Attorney General William Barr ruled there was no evidence requiring prosecution on the obstruction issue.

But Mr Trump celebrated regardless, tweeting: “No Collusion, No Obstruction, Complete and Total EXONERATION. KEEP AMERICA GREAT!”

In a longer statement on the findings, the President said: “There’s a lot of people out there that have done some very, very evil things, very bad things, I would say treasonous things, against our country.”

“And hopefully people that have done such harm to our country, we’ve gone through a period of really bad things happening.

“Those people will certainly be looked at, I’ve been looking at them for a long time.

“And I’m saying, ‘why haven’t they been looked at?’ They lied to Congress – many of them, you know who they are – they’ve’ done so many evil things.”

Mr Trump did not name the alleged culprits.

He added: “It was a false narrative, it was a terrible thing, we can never let this happen to another president again, I can tell you that. I say it very strongly.”

While he enjoys his exoneration, his election campaign has had a boost too.

But Mr Trump might have inadvertently done the Democrats a favour with his latest renewed push to scrap the Affordable Care Act.

How are his approval ratings?

A survey from Morning Consult/Politico found Trump’s net approval rating was still struggling at -13, even with the Mueller probe coming to a close.

The poll, conducted March 25 an 26, pegged Trump’s approval rating at 42 percent and his disapproval at 55 percent.

Morning Consult/Politico noted those results were “virtually identical” to the survey it had conducted the week before.

The new polling suggested that Trump is just about as well-liked as he was before Mueller handed in his report.

The poll from Morning Consult/Politico surveyed 1,978 registered voters from March 25 through March 26.

It had a margin of error of plus or minus two percentage points.

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