I don’t think it’s anything so tactical. In fact I don’t think Trump involved his campaign people at all, or even paused to consider whether it was true or not.
That’s just not how TFG’s brain works. He reposts things that he thinks make him look good by impulse, even if a few seconds of investigation would reveal the original poster was a tr0ll or a Russian propagandist or a Nazi. Then it’s his followers’ job to construct a rationale for why he did it.
