Donald Trump has called a three-year long “witch hunt” against him “a very unfair situation”.

The US president said in the East Room at the White House: “It was evil, it was corrupt, it was dirty cops.”

Mr Trump added: “We went thorough hell, unfairly.”

The president held up a copy of the Washington Post with the headline “Trump acquittal” during his speech that comes a day after he was cleared of impeachment charges.

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