Mitch McConnell prepares to do ... something with Florida AG Pam Bondi

When discussing the Trump University case, Don Trump is quick to say that both the Texas and Florida attorneys general dropped their cases against the “school.” It’s Trump’s effort to make it seem that New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is prosecuting Trump for political reasons.

The part Trump never mentions? How after Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi dropped the case against Trump, his money found its way to her campaign coffers. It never seemed like a coincidence, and now it seems like a clear case of bribery.

Florida’s attorney general personally solicited a political contribution from Donald Trump around the same time her office deliberated joining an investigation of alleged fraud at Trump University and its affiliates. The new disclosure from Attorney General Pam Bondi’s spokesman to the Associated Press on Monday provides additional details around the unusual circumstances of Trump’s $25,000 donation to Bondi. After the money came in, Bondi’s office nixed suing Trump.

That’s a revelation that should both burn another chunk of Trump’s weak alibi for his boiler-room scheme to take money from the elderly and uneducated. And it’s not as if Trump didn’t tell us. The idea that his dollars sway crooked politicians is a frequent part of his stump-tirade.

The timing of the donation by Trump is notable because the now presumptive Republican presidential nominee has said he expected and received favors from politicians to whom he gave money.

Over 60 Florida citizens asked for Bondi’s help in recovering some of the funds taken for them in Trump’s real estate swindle. But apparently none of them was swinging a check as large as Trump’s.

For both Bondi and Trump, this should be a very big deal.