Even the New York Times says so.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/24/opinion/ron-desantis-bush-cheney-trump.html
https://jacobin.com/2023/04/ron-desantis-donald-trump-jeb-bush-republican-presidential-nomination-race
https://floridapolitics.com/archives/600156-donald-trump-contends-that-ron-desantis-is-bush-machine-proxy-candidate/
The New York Times saying it's so is just further proof that it's a lie.
It's simply non-factual. Please put down the Kool Aid.