Mueller did not try to indict NOT because of some silly rules but because he was not confident a group of your peers would have found Trump guilty IMO.
Come on LandM. You don't need a law degree to know that this is completely non-sensical bull shirt.
Mueller has told us (over and over and over and over again) that DOJ rules prevented him from indicting Trump on anything while he's in office (no matter what the evidence). So he didn't indict. Duh.
Despite all the silly DOJ OLC rules, Mueller did go ahead and clear Trump on criminal conspiracy. Mueller did that because the evidence was not there (perhaps in part because the Trumpsters prevented the evidence from being there, but I digress).
He said he would have done that on OOJ if he could have. He said he could not do that. What does that imply? Why do you think Mueller mentioned time and again and again that Trump could be indicted after leaving office?
Simple -- because Trump is guilty of felony OOJ, and it is not even a close call. The stuff with McGahn is a prosecutor's wet dream of a slam dunk case. But due to the silly rules, Mueller can't indict now or say that Trump should be indicted now. For now, it is up to Congress (not going to happen) and the voters (which is totally fine with me).
Mueller actually did fine today. He did what he said in advance he was going to do and pretty much the only thing he was allowed to do. He's not senile -- he just has an impossible task (prosecuting someone with immunity). His hands are tied.
Boycott stupid. Country over party.