I have no doubt you didn't read it. You must be taking lessons from LG.
Used to think you were one of the independent ones.
I appreciate the humor of having my independence and reading quotient questioned by somebody popping off partisan hot takes that wouldn’t make sense to anyone who has read the report.
The fact that you didn’t immediately understand what I’m saying and think it’s somehow a failure of comprehension on my part (to the point of restating/explaining your opinion) suggests that you didn’t read even the first 10 pages of Volume II of the report, where this was discussed. Not to mention the your unsupported notion that he “left it up to Barr.”
Your opinion that the other 200 some-odd pages of Volume II don’t make a compelling case for obstruction and that Mueller left the question open to preserve a black cloud over the president, just confirms that you didn’t read it.
Volume II wasn’t a signal to congress, or whatever it’s being called. It’s “how to try this case, for dummies.” Sure, it didn’t make a final conclusion, but it also didn’t leave the question open, because it gave the reader, congress, or a future prosecutor, all of the tools and information they need to make the conclusion for themselves.
The incongruence of your opinion is even more stark if you juxtapose Volume I and Volume II and see the evidence they had of collusion, yet still reached the conclusion that they couldn’t prove conspiracy. Clearly they weren’t bending over backwards to leave a cloud hanging over Trump. They were calling balls and strikes consistently.
I get that most of us are busy. It took me a while to read the whole thing, and I definitely skipped a few sections in Volume I. So some people might not have finished it, yet. I don’t think that makes all the premature victory laps, tantrum throwing, deflections, or ill-considered hot takes any more credible.
A conclusive determination of guilt would flatly disregard the notions of due process and a day in court and would be likely to leave Trump’s opportunity to refute the charge in the hands of his political opponents. Those political opponents would then be forced to weigh their own partisan interests
against upholding the rule of law. Mueller knew which of those two ideas were the most momentous for house democrats and correctly put them on the same side of the scale.
