WATCH: CNN Hosts Admit FBI Never Should Have Investigated Trump For Russia Hoax: ‘Devastating To The FBI’

Following the release of special counsel John Durham’s long-anticipated report on the investigation into allegations of “collusion” between former President Trump and the Russian government, CNN host Jake Tapper called the report “devastating” for the FBI.

Sean Davis, the co-founder and CEO of The Federalist, released a series of tweets on Monday stating that his publication had received the 306-page report. “Special prosecutor John Durham concluded that ‘neither U.S. nor the Intelligence Community appears to have possessed any actual evidence of collusion in their holdings at the commencement of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation’,” Davis wrote.

Davis further reported that the FBI had no evidence to suggest collusion or contact between the Russian government and the Trump campaign, according to records prepared by disgraced former FBI agent Peter Strzok. The FBI was also unable to corroborate details from the thoroughly-discredited Steele dossier, which was financed by the Hillary Clinton campaign.

The Durham report’s release even drew criticism from CNN’s Jake Tapper,  who called the report “devastating” for the FBI.. “The report is now here, it has dropped, and it might not have produced everything of what some Republicans hope for, but it is regardless devastating to the FBI,” Tapper said. “And to a degree it does exonerate Donald Trump.”

Another CNN contributor conceded that the FBI should never have opened the 2016 Trump-Russia probe. “The bottom line is this – the investigation found that the FBI failed in many, many ways,” reported a CNN contributor shortly after the report was released.

In addition to confirmations of the FBI’s lack of evidence in opening the probe, the Durham Report revealed that the plan to discredit Trump was briefed to President Obama, Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Vice President Joe Biden in August of 2016 by then-CIA Director John Brennan.