US Attorney-General William Barr is facing calls to resign for orchestrating a “public relations effort” to minimise the political damage of the Mueller report to President Donald Trump and providing misleading answers to Congress.

On Tuesday, local time, it was revealed that special counsel Robert Mueller had written to Barr objecting to the way he had summarised his report into Russian election interference in an initial four-page memo released to the public in March.

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