1) they agreed with white house counsel that they lacked authority to indict a sitting president
2) when somebody faces an accusation, they typically have the recourse of standing trial and being found not guilty. there's a process to clear their name.
3) as they could not indict trump, there would be no parallel to that. if they just said "we cant charge trump, but we conclude he's guilty of crimes" then its basically just a smear with no chance for him to defend himself in court and clear his name. that's the "fairness" concerns they cite
4) therefore they decided that they were not
allowed to come to a formal conclusion that the president committed any crime
i posted about this in another thread... predictably didnt get a single response
https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/sho...=1#post9782553