This may not be the most flattering news to come out of the 2024 presidential election cycle, but it’s also not clear that anything illegal or even particularly unusual was going on in terms of American politics. Independent presidential candidate Cornel West has been knocked off of the ballot in several states already thanks to the machinations of the mainstream Democratic Party, but he has been gamely hanging in there and continuing to campaign. But now he’s been revealing an inside look at some of the backroom deals that have been taking place or at least attempted. As our colleague Sarah Arnold reports at Townhall, West went on a political podcast recently and claimed that the campaign of Kamala Harris had offered him a “cushy” position in a future Harris administration and promised to pay off his campaign debts if he agreed to drop out and endorse her. If so, is that legal? Or…