(CNN) Special counsel Robert Mueller stepped off the national stage on Wednesday but not before sending a very clear message to the country: Donald Trump got very, very lucky.

Mueller's 10-ish minute statement came after a nearly two-year-long investigation into Russia's attempted interference in the 2016 election and whether the President, or anyone close to him, had obstructed that probe. Mueller's words on the charge of collusion between the Russians and the Trump campaign largely comported with the 400+ page report released by the special counsel's office this spring, making clear that there was "insufficient evidence to charge a broader conspiracy."

But it was Mueller's words on the possibility that Trump had sought to obstruct the investigation where Mueller clearly wanted to leave his mark. He emphasized two things of real importance -- both of which, with a bit of reading between the lines, provided a glimpse into what Mueller really thinks regarding Trump and obstruction. Here they are:

1) "If we had had confidence that the President had clearly not committed a crime, we would have said so."

2) "Charging the President with a crime was, therefore, not an option we could consider."

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