I interpreted what he did there as signaling a “truce”.
I don’t agree with him doing this. I think it was a “Ok we’ll drop the ‘Put her in jail!’ thing and you’ll reciprocate with just normal partisan opposition.”
They didn’t and never intended to!
Trump was very very naive here. Just because they were nice to him previously at “parties” he thought he connected with them. He didn’t they only wanted to “connect” with his money! This where his vaunted “deal making” acumen gets him in trouble. You can’t make a deal where one side demands complete surrender! That’s not a deal, that’s capitulation!
Their side demands capitulation! There is no common ground for a deal!
Yes, Trump tried to make a truce so he could negotiate with them.
But they kept on trying to destroy him
Then the Wuhan Flu hit and Trump turned the nation over the same Deep State that was trying to destroy him.
No sign of learning his lesson.