He gave her cover.
(He gave her cover.)
He gave Trump ammo!
Did he? If he put out the same report of discoveries and then recommended prosecution, what would Lynch and Obama and Congressional Rats do? Recommend a Special Prosecutor, shred all of Comeys work as biased and unprofessional, fire Comey and the agents he worked with, and start all over again. What Hillary did involved the direct criminal actions of the President of the United States. That was her leverage on him, and Bill reminded Lynch of that on the plane, face to face.
As it is, Comey is preserving his work for another day. After all, Trump said he'd prosecute, and Comey said he has prosecutable evidence. So where's the problem here? If you look squarely at what is going on, it's LYNCH who announced she wouldn't prosecute, because Comey works FOR Lynch. And Lynch ordered Comey to not recommend prosecution - but she didn't order him not to find evidence of crimes. So, he found the evidence, and obeyed his boss's orders, which BTW came ultimately from the President himself.