Stormy Daniels
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You are ignoring what is right in the OP. Mueller explicitly states not wanting to preempt constitutionally proscribed impeachment by Congress was part of his reason for not reaching a "traditional prosecutorial judgment". And if you don't want to take my word for it, go read Mueller's own words. It's on page 213 of the downloadable PDFs of the report that are now all over the internet--i.e. page 1 of volume II of his report.
And apart from OLC’s constitutional view, we recognized that a federal criminal accusation against a sitting President would place burdens on the President’s capacity to govern and potentially preempt constitutional processes for addressing presidential misconduct.²
² See U.S. CONST. Art. I § 2, cl. 5; § 3, cl. 6; cf. OLC Op. at 257-258 (discussing relationship between impeachment and criminal prosecution of a sitting President).
Yep. Mueller isn't particularly subtle about it.
Exactly. It's not like he was speaking in code.