I don't know why this would be a surprise. The legal argument for moving his case to the Federal courts is that he was functioning as an executive branch official -- which means (by definition) that he was answering to the President at the time.
Only the DNC would consider questioning a questionable election is a criminal event. Never mind the 1st Amendment in this Turd World judiciary.
>> Politico writes that he bla bla bla
POLITICO? Anything that puke-bag Politico “writes” is highly suspect. Reader beware.
Another couple of candidates who could flip are Jenna Ellis who represented Trump in a couple of the post election cases and later decided to support DeSantis, the Trump campaign has refused to help her with her legal bills and the other big name to potentially flip is Rudy Giuliani his legal bills are also not being paid