Speaking at the White House on Monday, President Donald Trump said of the report's findings: "It's a disgrace what's happened."
"This was an attempted overthrow and a lot of people were in on it, and they got caught," he added.
US Attorney General William Barr rejected the inspector general's main conclusion that there was enough evidence for the FBI to launch its investigation of the Trump campaign.
America's top law official said the probe by the FBI, which he oversees, was launched "on the thinnest of suspicions that, in my view, were insufficient to justify the steps taken".
John Durham, a federal prosecutor hand-picked by the attorney general to conduct a pending, separate criminal inquiry into the roots of the Russia investigation, said he did not agree with some of Mr Horowitz's conclusions.
Democrats said the report undercuts Mr Trump's repeated claims that he was the victim of a "witch hunt".
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