As Occam's Razor clearly points out: the simplest answer is usually correct, and therefore we are being played for fools.
I mean really, can you imagine Comey and Lynch putting up with this... or a fraction of this? The fact that the information was purposely deleted and pathetically announced means these folks have not one twit of fear from Trump's appointees, not one.
We have seen the final page of this missive: evidence destroyed, memo besmirched and Mueller indictments to follow.
"It's dead Jim."
I have to agree.
Unless those who broke the chain of custody on that evidence are jailed, then this is likely over.
Mueller, however, will hand down his indictments.
Qs overplayed his impact.