Even as Donald Trump finds himself on the verge of criminal indictment in three jurisdictions, he’s still trying to convince everyone (or at least convince himself) that he’s somehow going to be a presidential contender in 2024. To that end, he keeps periodically sniping at his fellow 2024 Republican hopeful Ron DeSantis. Now Trump is taking that to a shocking new level.

Trump shared another user’s post on his own failed social network which allegedly shows DeSantis getting drunk with underage students back when he was a school teacher. The post also accused DeSantis of looking “ephebophiliaesque” – which essentially another word for pedophilia.

In other words, Trump is now doing what so many right wing loons do these days to anyone they don’t like: Trump is accusing DeSantis of being a pedophile. Trump is offering nothing to back up his accusation, and he’s going to have to provide some actual evidence if he wants this to be considered credible. But the point is that large chunks of Trump’s base will presume this accusation to be true, just as they automatically believe every word that comes out of Trump’s mouth.

Donald Trump is (knowingly) setting up a situation where, if Ron DeSantis is the 2024 Republican nominee for President, a number of Republican voters are going to spend the whole time calling him a pedophile instead of supporting him. In other words, Trump is trying to take DeSantis down with him. If Trump can’t be the 2024 Republican nominee – and he won’t be – he wants to screw it up for anyone else the Republican Party might pick instead.

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