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It's Thursday morning. I'm Olivia Reingold, and this is your Politico Playbook Daily Briefing.

Here's a scoop for you. Palm Beach law enforcement is preparing for the possibility that former

President Donald Trump could be indicted. That's according to two high-ranking county officials

who tell Politico that local

law enforcement has been meeting in case Manhattan DA, Cy Vance, does what rumor says he will.

Publish a bombshell report pinning down Trump's alleged tax fraud right before the clock strikes

2022 and he retires. One thing that keeps coming up in those Palm Beach police

meetings, how to handle an extradition request. If Vance's office does indict Trump while he's

at Mar-a-Lago, that hypothetical is complicated by an obscure clause in Florida's statute on

interstate extradition that gives the state's governor the ability to intervene statute on interstate extradition that gives the state's governor

the ability to intervene in an interstate extradition request. That means rising GOP star,

Governor Ron DeSantis, could make his star even bigger by putting the brakes on Vance's

theoretical request to investigate whether the former president, quote, ought to be surrendered.

Here's the gist of Florida statute 941.04. When one state asks the governor to surrender someone

charged with a crime, he or she has the right to open an investigation into whether that person

should be turned over. Politico spoke with the official who could lead

that potential investigation. The clerk of the Circuit Court of Palm Beach County, Joe Abrazzo, who told us,

quote, the statute leaves room for interpretation that the governor has the power to order a review

and potentially not comply with the extradition notice.

One coincidence here is that Abrazzo happens to be a former business partner of Frank Biden,

President Joe Biden's younger brother.

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