Lawmakers and U.S. counter-intelligence officials – echoing Goldman and the Justice Department detention memo – say Smirnov’s accusations against Biden bear all the hallmarks of being part of ongoing and clandestine Kremlin effort to smear Biden and help Trump in the upcoming election, where he is the presumptive GOP nominee. “I have no idea whether they are witting collaborators,” Raskin said of the GOP lawmakers pushing for Biden’s impeachment. But by aggressively pushing Smirnov's falsehoods, "many of them have been active participants in what is essentially a Putin disinformation campaign