According to some published documents, Russian President Vladimir Putin authorized a spy agency to help Donald Trump win the 2016 US election. The former president was reportedly called "mentally unstable" during a closed-door session of Russia's national security council in January 2016, although the group considered him the best candidate for the presidency.

Putin, "his spies and ministers" were all present at the meeting. Russia's current president has reportedly authorized three spy agencies in Russia to find ways to support Trump and help him win the election, according to what are considered Kremlin documents.

Why did all this happen? During the Security Council meeting, it was agreed that Trump becoming president would help secure Moscow's strategic objectives, The Guardian reports, and a Trump victory would come with a "destabilization of the US socio-political system. ".

While Putin wanted Trump to win, a brief psychological assessment of the former president describes him as an "impulsive, mentally unstable and unbalanced individual suffering from an inferiority complex," according to the documents. The documents also suggest that the Russians had compromising material on the 75-year-old.

Experts believe the leaked documents are true, so the information on them is likely to be accurate. However, the Russians have denied the allegations. 

Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov called the idea of ??Russian leaders coming together to agree to support Trump as "pulp fiction." 

While Trump and Putin have been close, the relationship between Russian President and current US President Joe Biden seems tense. The latter even labeled him a "killer".

Source: Unilad, The Guardian