Surprisingly not OT:
Today’s Evening Briefing appears to show that the 2024 election will be predictable in at least one respect: Donald Trump transparently proposing a quid pro quo in his public statements. And DeSantis is doing it too, and very credibly.
We gotta treat this the same way we treated it when then-President Trump was very crudely signalling to Paul Manafort to not flip for Mueller: it’s a bribe and obstruction and an impeachable offense all by itself.
In reality, i.e. as perceived by the GOP voters they are speaking to, this was a pretty powerful exchange on the primary campaign trail: DeSantis has been proving that he’s good at actually “hurting the right people,” and tonight he sweetened the deal for MAGAts and other Trump-leaning voters, because a “President DeSantis” is the future you’d want if you reluctantly accept that the Dems really do have Trump on something good this time around, and one of your political priorities is making sure that Good Old 45 can escape safely to whatever retirement awaits him.