evidence: The report from special counsel Robert Hur resolves a criminal investigation that had shadowed Biden’s presidency for the last year. But its bitingly critical assessment of his handling of sensitive government records and unflattering characterizations of his memory will spark fresh questions about his competency and age that cut at voters’ most deep-seated concerns about his candidacy for re-election. [...] "I just believed that’s what I owed the American people so they could know no charges would be brought and the matter closed," Biden said. [...] Biden’s personal attorney Bob Bauer accused the special counsel of violating "well-established’ norms and "trashing" the president.