Just days before the election, but certainly still dismissed from coverage by the very networks that for years peddled the hoax, the final nail has gone into the Steele dossier coffin.

Attorney General William Barr believes the Russia investigation that was encouraged by Democrats and the mainstream media - and shadowed President Donald Trump for the first two years of his administration - was started without any basis and was an effort to "sabotage the presidency," he said in an interview with Fox News.

The long FBI probe into a purported Russia election collusion was absent of any direct conspiracy evidence against a Trump associate except for the discredited Democratic Party-financed dossier and its impresario, Fusion GPS. For the first time in an official report, there are explanations of why the FBI initially targeted four Trump advisers: retired Army Lt.