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"Third, we considered whether to evaluate the conduct we investigated under the Justice Manual standards governing prosecution and declination decisions, but we determined not to apply an approach that could potentially result in a judgment that the President committed crimes. [...] The ordinary means for an individual to respond to an accusation is through a speedy and public trial, with all the procedural protections that surround a criminal case. An individual who believes he was wrongly accused can use that process to seek to clear his name. In contrast, a prosecutor's judgment that crimes were committed, but that no charges will be brought, affords no such adversarial opportunity for public name-clearing before an impartial adjudicator."

Mueller can't charge the President. Since he can't charge the President, he won't accuse the President. Since he won't accuse the President, he had to walk back his sincere but impolitic statement that "yeah, we would have indicted anyone else, but him we can't."

Edit: By the way - I am wholly in favor of impeachment. Yes, the Republican Senate will refuse to follow through. I acknowledge that. Let the Democrats stand for America and the rule of law, while the Republicans stand for greed and the rule of power, and in time the arc of the moral universe will bend toward justice.
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I don't like this duchy. Now, it's an adventurer.