Trump Is Losing the Grifter Class to DeSantis

[brooklynite]

The Bulwark

There was bad news for the Trump 2024 campaign yesterday and it wasn’t Nikki Haley’s pre-announcement of her campaign to challenge the former president.1

No, the bad news was from this guy:

Bill Mitchell
@mitchellvii
Ok, that's it. I'm done. I'm off the #TrumpTrain. I cannot in good conscience support a man who would tell lies about a great American to defend his own enormous ego.

I will work with every ounce of my being to help Governor DeSantis win the nomination and the presidency.
6:49 PM ∙ Jan 30, 2023

You remember Bill Mitchell as the OG Trump grifter, yes? Well, it seems like the gravy train is moving on.

Leave aside Mitchell’s purported reasoning:
- That his decisions are governed by conscience.
- That he is shocked to have discovered, in 2023, that Donald Trump lies.
- That he believes Ron DeSantis is a Great American.
- That he is repulsed—eight years in—by Trump’s ego.

That’s not what’s important. What’s important is that Mitchell is a signal that it’s not just the Republican establishment who is pushing DeSantis. Even the grifter class now sees DeSantis as the fatter whale.

[Scrivener7]

1. A good thing is that this splits the crazies.

It came out afterwards that there was a concerted Russian bot campaign to gin up differences between Hillary and Bernie supporters in 2016. (Not taking a side, just saying it happened.)

We should do that with DeSantis and tfg.