An awaited report was published which says that the FBI did not begin the investigation into "Russiagate" for political purposes

An awaited report has been published in which Michael Horowitz, inspector general of the US Department of Justice, says – in summary – that the beginning of the investigation known as Russiagate (on Russian interference in the 2016 US election campaign and contacts between the Russian government and the electoral committee of Donald Trump) was justified and not motivated by political ends. The report, more than 400 pages long and started in March 2018, adds that several errors were made in some procedures used for the investigation, for example in the way some interceptions were authorized and performed. In particular with regard to interceptions against Carter Page, who worked for Trump during the election campaign.

As he writes Axios, the report was expected in particular from Trump and from those who support him, in the hope that he would have highlighted "factiousness and errors on the part of some top FBI executives, thus supporting the hypothesis that the relationship was born with political aims". Always Axios he explains, however, that the report does however point out that there were errors, negligence and omissions by some people who were in charge of the investigation for the FBI. In other words, despite the central fact that the investigation was justified, there are elements on which Trump will be able to leverage to continue to criticize those who dealt with it. However, as he writes Associated Press, the report "discredits Trump's thesis that it is a" witch hunt "for him".