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A two-week-old Breitbart exclusive, reposted without a word of his own

The post is a Breitbart headline and its URL, nothing more: "Exclusive: Jack Smith's Office Bent Its Own Rules to Rush Software Purchase Days Before Indicting Trump." The article ran on September 28, 2026. He posted it the evening of October 11, almost two weeks later. So he didn't share it because it was breaking news. He went back to an old item because it fits a grievance he keeps returning to: the special counsel prosecutions as illegitimate "lawfare."

What the article documents, and what the headline adds

I fetched the article. It rests on DOJ records the Oversight Project got through a FOIA lawsuit. On June 26, 2023, Smith's litigation-support staff asked Axon Investigate for forensic video and audio conversion software. On July 12 the office's records officer wrote, "We are in desperate need of this software." On July 13, executive officer Ariel McIntyre first paused the order under the office's approval process, which she noted was stricter than standard DOJ policy at Smith's own insistence. That same morning she authorized the purchase before the required UFMS financial obligation existed, citing urgency. Axon shipped on July 15.

The records do show the office departing from its own internal sequence, so "Bent Its Own Rules" has some documentary footing. But the article itself says it is "not clear" who approved the exemption or what became of the software. It shows no improper use and names no written policy that was violated. The software was a tool for converting proprietary video formats, which is routine evidence-handling infrastructure. The headline's "Days Before Indicting Trump" is also loose. The order went in about 18 days before the August 1, 2023 election-case indictment, after the June 8 documents indictment, and two weeks before the July 27 superseding indictment. Putting "rush" next to "before indicting" invites the reader to see a paperwork shortcut as evidence of a predetermined prosecution. The article never makes that inference, and the headline doesn't state it either. It only arranges the words so the reader will.

Where it sits in the evening's run of posts

The posts before it that day cover a change of press secretary ("Could not have been better!"), the rallies ("legendary they have already become"), and an attack on Roy Cooper that opens "I have just learned" and ends "He is a TOTAL FRAUD!" The Smith link comes after that, still in grievance mode but calmer. The Cooper post carried the anger in its own words. Here the anger is handed to a third-party headline. This fits a pattern in his evening posting: after original posts, he dumps a string of links from friendly outlets, each one supporting a standing narrative without his comment.

The persecution story, kept up through someone else's words

In narrative-identity terms the post serves a contamination story: legitimate legal process recast as a corrupt operation that "rushed" to get him. It casts him as the target of a hostile state, with Smith as the contrasting other. The persecution claim is borrowed from Breitbart, so it carries the outlet's authority rather than his. That makes it easier to deny and harder to rebut than a first-person accusation. The main defense on display is rationalization by selection. A procedural irregularity in a records request gets promoted to proof that the prosecutions were improper, which lets the indictments be read as persecution instead of accountability. There's a splitting undertone in the treatment of Smith's office. The article's own detail that Smith insisted on stricter-than-DOJ purchasing rules, a point in his favor, disappears behind the headline.

Paranoid features show only in the old preoccupation with how he was investigated. Three years on, the Smith grievance still pulls him to an obscure procurement story. This is a held grudge more than a fresh injury. Nothing here reads as a reaction to new criticism. I read it as maintenance: keeping a settled grievance in circulation weeks before the midterms, at a time when he is back to rallying for Senate candidates.

Authorship

The timestamp converts to 8:53 PM EDT on Sunday, October 11. He was presumably in Washington the night before a Youngstown, Ohio rally. Evening link-sharing runs like this have usually been attributed to Trump himself, sometimes working from articles staff collect for him. With a pasted headline there's no prose to check for his style, so the attribution rests on timing and on the sequence with the clearly personal Cooper post. I lean authentic with moderate confidence.

Target and risk

Smith is a named individual whom Trump has attacked for years and has publicly said should be prosecuted. This post adds no call to action, threat, or dehumanizing language. Its effect is to strengthen how followers already see Smith, not to mark him as a new target. That keeps the risk low. But the cumulative pattern of singling out former prosecutors matters more than any single repost.

Fact Verification

Overall Veracity: 65%