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There's another old saying, that "the burden of proof is on the accuser" and so far there doesn't seem to be hard evidence whatsoever of collusion going on. Trump or his supporters, of which there are millions, should be obligated to provide at least some proof, before Trump's attack can be justified, in my opinion

The evidence does show that DeSantis gave Bush financed candidate John O'Dea a full endorsement after O'Dea trashed Trump, on CNBC, right before the election, and by extension hurting and devaluing Trump's 100 plus MAGA trump endorsed candidates. IMO, that wasn't a construstive move for all those MAGA candidates, for Trump and for DeSantis. It was a move that only benefited the Uniparty.

Unfortunately I expect Trump and his supporters to keep attacking DeSantis with no concrete evidence, and DeSantis to just keep taking the high road. Who that is working out better for remains to be seen.

I disagree. Sitting back while the Uniparty, Karl Rove and Paul Ryan promote you while trashing Trump and MAGA is not the high road, nor the constructive road to be on.

DeSantis gave Bush financed candidate John O'Dea a full endorsement after O'Dea trashed Trump

Ok but an endorsement of a Republican in a 2022 Senate race would appear to be an indirect attack of Trump, at worst, would it not? Not a direct attack like Trump is doing.

Let's flip that and look at Trump's recent endorsement of McCarthy for Speaker of the House. Does that mean that Trump believes in everything that McCarthy has done, or is doing right now? And isn't McCarthy one of the RINOs (or UniParty as you said) that Baris said was working against Trump when he attempted to criticize DeSantis?

So the point I'm making is DeSantis isn't O'Dea, simply because he endorsed him, any more than Trump is McCarthy, simply by way of endorsement. Hope that makes sense?

Sitting back while the Uniparty, Karl Rove and Paul Ryan promote you while trashing Trump and MAGA is not the high road, nor the constructive road to be on.

Well, we may have to disagree on that then, because lending these rumors any credence will put DeSantis on the defensive, which he doesn't deserve to be without any proof of them actually working together. Once you are on the defensive, which happens when you respond to unproven rumors, then you are on the defensive and expected to respond each and every time going forward. That's why the term taking the high road came about.

So to summarize my perspective, DeSantis has done nothing directly to Trump, he hasn't even mentioned him, at all. There isn't any proof of DeSantis colluding with Uniparty members, other than an endorsement of one, similar to Trump's endorsement of McCarthy. Therefore Trump's attacks are unwarranted, and have probably damaged himself, more than DeSantis, but there is much more to play out here and I'm not declaring either one the winner yet, especially two years out.