I don't know that he was coordinating with them. But he saw the effect his rhetoric had on them and so he continued with the rhetoric knowingly egging them on. Because it served his purpose, and that was all that was important to him. Country be damned. Trump is an evil bastard who lives by the seat of his pants and shoots from the hip. He will do anything, and stoop lower than anyone. But I doubt he could coordinate a nose picking.
On the other hand, he may instruct his smarter henchmen to do the coordinating for him.
He was educated by the Russian and Italian Mafia and the prosecutors of same to wriggle off hooks by doing it all verbly and using language carefully.
He had a plan not to leave if he lost and he should be put against the wall for it. Otherwise this is the slipperiest of slopes. DeSantis or the guy after will be competent and that's the end of the democracy phase, imperium afterwards.
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