Last month The Atlantic reported "The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence confirmed what the Mueller report could not." It's not that the Senate had new information. It's that the Senate was more committed.

It finally delivered what Mueller either could not or would not: a comprehensive presentation of the evidence in the matter of “collusion.” The report confirms that Russiagate is no hoax.

Democrats are telling us, yet again, that Russia hacked our election. A claim that Mueller stated clearly that there was no evidence of happening.
At the same time Democrats are outraged that Trump is telling voters that there is massive voter fraud going on.

Wait a sec. There is little or no voter fraud happening, BUT Russia is hacking our elections.
Both statements cannot be true.
What is more believable is that both Trump and the Dems are liars.

If you visit the Wikipedia page on Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections, you would read that every charge against Trump was proven beyond the shadow of a doubt. It barely even mentions that Trump denied his obvious guilt.
If you watch late night comedy shows, CNN, or MSNBC, you would know that Russiagate is a matter of faith. Religious faith.

However, whenever someone had to put their reputation on the line regarding any of the Russiagate allegations, Russiagate failed every time.
It started even before the Mueller testimony.

CrowdStrike, the private cyber-security firm that first accused Russia of hacking Democratic Party emails and served as a critical source for U.S. intelligence officials in the years-long Trump-Russia probe, acknowledged to Congress more than two years ago that it had no concrete evidence that Russian hackers stole emails from the Democratic National Committee’s server.
CrowdStrike President Shawn Henry's admission under oath, in a recently declassified December 2017 interview before the House Intelligence Committee, raises new questions about whether Special Counsel Robert Mueller, intelligence officials and Democrats misled the public.

So Mueller knew about it, the Democrats knew about it, and the intelligence officials knew about it. Yet no one said a word until a year after Mueller's testimony. That doesn't look like people trying to get to the truth.

Then came Mueller's testimony, when he had to put his reputation on the line. Suddenly none of the Russiagate allegations added up. Glenn Greenwald put it like this:

The result of all of that was that not a single American – whether with the Trump campaign or otherwise – was charged or indicted on the core question of whether there was any conspiracy or coordination with Russia over the election. No Americans were charged or even accused of being controlled by or working at the behest of the Russian government. None of the key White House aides at the center of the controversy who testified for hours and hours – including Donald Trump, Jr. or Jared Kushner – were charged with any crimes of any kind, not even perjury, obstruction of justice or lying to Congress.

Matt Taibbi was even more brutally honest, but his outrage was aimed at the media.

None of this has been walked back...
There was never real gray area here. Either Trump is a compromised foreign agent, or he isn’t. If he isn’t, news outlets once again swallowed a massive disinformation campaign, only this error is many orders of magnitude more stupid than any in the recent past, WMD included. Honest reporters like ABC’s Terry Moran understand: Mueller coming back empty-handed on collusion means a “reckoning for the media.”

Of course, there won’t be such a reckoning. (There never is). But there should be. We broke every written and unwritten rule in pursuit of this story, starting with the prohibition on reporting things we can’t confirm.

So with no Russian collusion of any kind, and no proof of the Russian hack, all that is left was a Russian click-bait farm known as the Internet Research Agency. Their crime was sending us Facebook memes.
A far cry from espionage in the White House.

And yet even that pathetic, anti-climatic ending was not to be.
It started to go off the rails when the IRA actually defended itself in American court, which is not something the justice department expected.
The DOJ suddenly found itself having to prove its case and it failed miserably.

A federal judge has chastised former special counsel Robert Mueller and Attorney General William P. Barr for stating that the Russian government was behind election year social media trolling when there is no evidence presented by prosecutors...
Mr. Dubelier told the judge that Mr. Mueller and Mr. Barr violated a Justice Department criminal rule by stating before trial that Concord committed an offense.

“The court has discretion to impose sanctions on AG Barr and SC Mueller,” he said. “Specifically, sanctioning the government’s conduct now will highlight the impropriety of the government’s statements and potentially remove any taint that may have infected the jury pool as a result of those statements.”

Even the judge agreed with the defendants. So Mueller's case against the IRA almost immediately fell apart.
A few months later the Justice Department dismissed all indictments with a filing that basically amounted to "I'm going to take my ball and go home."

So what's left of Russiagate? No Russia-related indictments, no prosecutions, no conspiracy. Just a general sense of what everyone knows as a fact that simply isn't true.