I know what the simplest explanation is.

Mr. Mamdani may turn traitor. He is admittedly a squish and electoralist. Pure socialists will disagree with him to some extent and that is fine. But he’s not going to just take a bag of money from Trump and start fellating billionaires.

Your second sentence is correct. The first is odd. I don’t think there’s anything Trump has that Mamdani wants, honestly.

The simplest interpretation of the days events is that nothing particularly unpredictable happened.