A special counsel report investigating U.S. President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents spared the world leader of criminal charges on Thursday.
But the report still dealt a politically devastating blow to the incumbent just nine months away from the next vote: It made multiple, blunt notes about Biden’s age and mental abilities.
In recounting five different interviews with the president, special counsel Robert Hur described Biden, then 80, as a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory” — so much so, he wrote, that members of the public wouldn’t convict him of knowingly committing a felony.
“It would be difficult to convince
