Article snippet: MORE explained during his first comments on the Russia investigation why he did not charge the president with obstruction of justice. “Nothing changes from the Mueller Report. There was insufficient evidence and therefore, in our Country, a person is innocent. The case is closed! Thank you,” he tweeted. White House press secretary MORE Sanders minutes later reiterated Trump’s stance that it is time to move on from the two-year probe, saying Mueller’s report was “clear” that the president did not commit a crime and that the special counsel “explicitly said that he has nothing to add beyond the report.” “After two years, the special counsel is moving on with his life, and everyone else should do the same,” she said in a statement. Mueller said he believed he could not charge Trump with a crime due to longstanding Justice Department (DOJ) guidelines stating that a sitting president cannot be indicted while in office, telling reporters it was “not an option we could consider,” and emphasized he did not exonerate the Trump. “If we had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said that,” Mueller said. “We did not, however, make a determination as to whether the president did commit a crime.” That description appeared to conflict with the account of Attorney General MORE, who said last month that Mueller’s decision did not hinge on the DOJ guidelines. Barr wrote in his letter summarizing the investigation that Mueller did not find “s... Link to the full article to read more