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The Justice Department may make Trump a deal he can’t refuse. Rachel Maddow repeated the option. The President could be facing as much as 400 years in jail over mishandling documents. Democrats and the media are hoping he’ll drop out of the 2024 race. The other option is to die in jail so shy of assassination, this may be the strategy. Maddow spoke on “TheReidOut” to Joy Reid about this escape.
The deal to try to make Trump go away
Would Trump try to avoid jail time? Maddow began,
“What would Donald Trump do to avoid jail time? I guess — I literally suppose — that he would do anything. And if it’s going to come to him avoiding jail time, now that this indictment exists, he’s either going to have to win in court defending yourself against these charges — by saying, ‘Yes, I did it” is not a great defense — so how else can you avoid jail time? Well, you can plea in exchange for leniency What can he offer prosecutors other than his confession, his cooperation? I mean, this is a crime he could only commit because he was in high public office.”
It could still mean jail time though. She reminded her viewers of Vice President Spiro Agnew being forced out in 1973 for tax evasion charges.
Rachel @Maddow suggests Trump can cop a plea to avoid jail, offering to drop out of the 2024 race pic.twitter.com/mwN55g7ia9
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) June 15, 2023
The Nixon deal
The Department of Justice didn’t want Agnew as a successor should Nixon resign although that’s probably exactly what the government wanted Nixon to do. Maddow remembered, “In order to keep Agnew out, they traded him essentially jail time for his resignation.”
Maddow backed out of giving legal advice but instead alluded to what happened in history. “I’m not saying that’s what the DOJ should agree to. I’m not saying that’s what Trump should try for, or his defense should offer it. I’m not even saying it would be good or bad for the country. I’m just saying, the one other time we’ve dealt with this as a country, that’s how we did it.”
The deal may happen again
History can repeat itself. Journalist Tom Elliot put that assessment out in a tweet, “Rachel @Maddow suggests Trump can cop a plea to avoid jail, offering to drop out of the 2024 race.”
Maddow put this possibility out before when she spoke on MSNBC’s “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell.” She mentioned about withdrawing from the race being part of the plea deal as a “political solution to this criminal problem.”
