"making the bad guys do bad things?'
no
That would be entrapment.
That's what they do
They are too stupid to be good actors; sorry
And deep state always picks the worst actors.
Nobody could act the creepy Biden part.
Maybe the best actors on the planet, very rare and have to be trained.
No Biden is an authentic doofus, brain-dead clone or whatever; that's no acting job.
The scriptwriter would be told
"That's too over the top, we can't do that, no one would believe it"