President Donald Trump smirked, when one of his supporters ranted out a familiar chant “Lock him up!” in reference to Biden controversy. The supporters shouted repeatedly in unison, “lock him up!” as the president laughed, at a campaign rally last Friday. The shouting chants referred to Joe Biden, the presidential nominee and his son Hunter Biden whom Trump and his lawyer, Rudy Giuliani have always accused of being in cahoots with vested Ukrainian interests.

Trump and Giuliani have alleged numerous times that Biden had inappropriately used his role as vice president to shut down a criminal investigation into the Ukrainian gas company, Burisma Holding. It was supposedly done to save Hunter, who was serving on Burisma Board at the time. There are in fact no pieces of evidence, as reported by Business Insider, which hold merit for the allegations against the Bidens. The claims by Trump and Giuliani have been summarily debunked by the intelligence community in the US.

The Biden –Ukraine conspiracy theory had been in news recently after a news report intended to point to the email communication between the Bidens and the Bursima board, allegedly as an evidence of the nexus. The report was written by a former producer of the Fox News Show, Hannity, and the email communication series was later found to be a part of foreign influence operation. Former spooks in US, (as reported in Business Insider) showed that the report in fact showed how susceptible Trump and Giuliani are to hostile intelligence services and their manipulation especially by Russian Intelligence.

Former intelligence operatives, assert, referring to the personality traits of Trump and his lawyer Giuliani, especially their desire to dig up dirt on political rivals, that both of them form natural targets and become gold mine for foreign intelligence machinery. Giuliani, many observers state and assert, is similar to former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, in almost always considering himself the smartest in the room. This personality trait makes him and others like him natural targets for foreign intelligence organizations. Such people in top echelons, who want to get hold over any information which can harm their rivals, no matter what, make the foreign intelligence ponder what kind of psychological makeup that person has, and whether can such people be duped. For Giuliani, the answer to all such questions on gullibility is yes. A prominent example of such manipulation is a Ukrainian national Andrii Derkach, who has been sanctioned by the Treasury Department for acting as a Russian agent and was found to be spreading disinformation about the Bidens and the 2020 elections.

(-taken from Business Insider)

The author is a student member of Amity Centre of Happiness.