It is pretty frustrating that every time a conservative post is levied you are responded with a bevy or 'he's broken' or 'hes brainwashed'...that is why I don't post. It is impossible to have a rational conversation without people on this board attempting to silence a voice using whatever personal, intellectual, or religious insult they can muster. I have more to do in my life than to defend myself on an anonymous message board, and when pressed I am compulsed to respond and end up wasting much more of my day than I should parrying blows.
I agree that the OLC's opinion played a factor, but Barr also testified under oath that Mueller three times stated that regardless of the OLC ruling, if the evidence and facts of the case warranted a charge of obstruction, Mueller would have levied the charge. Instead the evidence was very hazy, and therefore it wasn't worth trying to jump the first (possibly large) OLC hurdle in order to try and prove a case that was most likely not winnable (even if/when the OLC decision could be sidestepped).
I feel as though the OLC decision is all that the Democrats are hearing, when in fact, according to testimony under oath (that Mueller has not refuted as far as I have seen), the charge would have been levied by Mueller if the facts warranted it.
It is really difficult to prove criminal obstruction is what I am learning from the reading I have done, PARTICULARLY when the investigation that you are being accused of obstruction returns a verdict that is absent of prosecuted guilt. Trump is by no means innocent, but if Mueller had the evidence to charge Trump with something he would have. I don't believe that Mueller is a stoog, and feel as though he conducted an exhaustive and thorough investigation.