Notice Kasich did a 180 immediately following Trump's suggestion that he might form a Super Pac against him?
Now Kasich is open to endorsing Donald Trump, and only two days ago he was earnestly telling everyone he just couldn't find it in his heart to endorse.
Trump knows what he doing.
Trump is whipping his enemies into submission with just a few words.
I was just about to write that.
I tend to think Trump knows what he is doing these. He has the best consultants money can buy, combined with what seems to be a very good sense of where this campaign is going.
Now the next weeks news cycle will be dominated by the democratic convention. The week after that by taking heads trying to figure out what happened in the convention. he has a narrow window where they will not be vultures, as they have bigger things to chase. This is an excellent time to do whatever internal housecleaning needs to be do done now, to put down any folks that think they will embarrass Trump down the line like they did in the Mexican judge statement.
Next time the press jumps on Trump he needs every single republican the press might go to (with the exception of Cruz), to defend him and point out how what he said it the truth. The only way to do that is to make sure they all know this is the time to unite behind Trump and good things happen to those that do, while those that doe not will be forgotten.
He has shown pretty flawless execution so far, at times when the action did not seem to make sense. For example, all the emphasis on his family at an entirely feel good level at the convention, why do that? Well because if folks come away with the feeling his kids are all right, they will not fall for the personal attacks that will occur sometime in the next three month. It will happen, personal attacks will be made. He is thinking ahead all his actions seem to be well thought out.
So I would suggest he knows what he is doing.