The recent rumor is that Christie will enter this year’s GOP presidential primary, spend the overwhelming majority of his time attacking Donald Trump, and then, if DeSantis wins the presidency, Christie will become attorney general in the DeSantis administration.

That kind of quiet deal isn’t farfetched at all, and Christie, a former federal prosecutor, is the kind of figure who would be on any Republican president’s short list for attorney general.

But one of the reasons I find that rumor implausible is that if Christie is in a secret alliance with DeSantis, he’s doing a masterful job of hiding it.

[I’ve heard the same thing, to some extent from Christie himself in arguing that only he can “prosecute” Trump in the primary cycle. The newly aggressive approach from Ron DeSantis and the Never Back Down fast-response team to Trump makes that proposition questionable now. Part of the reason that the rumor seems believable is that no one can figure out any other reason Christie would launch a campaign other than to employ a dog-in-the-manger strategy against Trump, either for someone else in the race or his own desires. — Ed]