Trump questions why Democrats should get Mueller report

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump questioned on Saturday whether Congressional Democrats should have access to a redacted version of the Mueller report that cleared him of conspiring to collude with Russia during the 2016 election.

Attorney General Bill Barr has indicated he will hand over a restricted copy of the 400-page report by Special Counsel Robert Mueller that edits out "sensitive" details sometime next week. Trump had previously said the decision to release the report would be "totally up to" his attorney general, while his press secretary Sarah Sanders in March said "I don’t think the president has any problem" with its publication.

The president’s latest comments come days after he called the probe an attempted "coup", while Barr promised to investigate FBI "spying" on Trump.