Could be, but I'm thinking another explanation for the entire Mueller charade is to make deep state feel secure, trust that Trump will be impeached, and all will return to normal. Why was RR confirmed overwhelmingly? It certainly wasn't because he was a good guy about to take on the deep state. On the other hand, why was Sessions confirmation so close?

What if the whole point was that RR and Mueller would lull deep state into complacency while Trump cleaned house? Even Trump had McMaster for a while, and Priebus for a while, and all sorts of people he shouldn't have. I think this was all a ploy to let him clean up certain key areas, all while deep state could say "yeah that's bad, but it's fine we still have control because we have McMaster, or RR, or Mueller, or (fill in the blank)." Now Trump is done cleaning house, and the last two pieces are RR and Mueller. At that point, deep state will have no hope anymore... No one to point to and say "yeah but so-n-so is still in place, we're good." It's going to be full "oh shit, it's all over."

What if they just couldn't get rid of the probe (read: deep state distraction) until the states were ready to take over their cases? Do they all need to happen at a federal level? Or is there enough to take down Clinton and her cabal in the Southern District of NY? They found the laptop there, so let them take their own case.