Thank you very much for your efforts to find any evidence of your original claim, and for providing wha you did find. I too, have looked before, but have not found any evidence that DeSantis ever said he wouldn’t run if Trump did, so hopefully we can now put that claim to rest.
Regarding the statement from DeSantis that he wanted to stamp out CRT in Florida before considering a run for the Oval Office, I think an honest assessment of that subject is he’s well on his way, if not already there. That included him even ending a controversial “black history” class, which was a very courageous position for him to take, but based on how the class focused not on the actual history, but obscure leftist concerns like “Black Queer History” which should be a footnote, at best.
We shall see who is correct about DeSantis' true intentions by this summer I predict.
I sincerely hope I am wrong, but my gut is telling me differently.