PMSNBC's Chris Matthews Suggests Trump May Resign in Deal to Spare His Children Prison

Huge "Bushie" and suck-up to the Washington neoconservative political class Chris Matthews has now officially floated the idea of a "grand bargain" to end the Trump presidency without Trump family prosecution. Trump would have to resign apparently, not just choose to limit himself to one term. Is Matthews privy to something? Probably not. He is likely just offering his own wishful thinking, and maybe getting some second hand info from the Bush expats who now fill the punditocracy over at PMSNBC. Maybe Meacham told him something. A grand bargain of some sort, however, is not out of the question eventually. Simply because it would save the GOP from an internal civil war over a Trump 2020 campaign. The daytime crowd over at PMSNBC are already chattering about whether a "brave hero" will challenge Trump in the primaries, and even FAT!Rush today on his radio show offered the idea that Trump ought to consider not running for reelection and shut down the government over the budget (something that apparently is now not going to happen).

(thewrap.com) - “Giving up the presidency in exchange for acquittals all around,” Chris Matthews says, promoting a novel legal idea.

Chris Matthews floated a novel legal theory on his MSNBC show “Hardball” Monday evening suggesting President Trump could resign as part of a deal with prosecutors to spare his children the possibility of being indicted and sent to prison.

“The president’s children stand right in the line of Mueller’s investigative progress — they stand as the next dominos to fall. But therein lies the problem, where earlier Mueller subjects have given Trump up, these two lack the option to do that,” Matthews said. “They can hardly testify against their father, which brings the country to the reckoning. If the prosecutor will not be stopped and the kids will not fall to him, we see the president’s adult children heading to prison.”

“But what if the prosecutor were to offer the president an alternative, what if he were to say he would let the children walk if the old man does the same?” he continued. “They get to go scot-free if he’s willing to take the Agnew way out. That would mean giving up the presidency in exchange for acquittals all around, not just for himself, but for all his kids.”

The “Agnew way out” refers to President Richard Nixon’s twice-elected vice president Spiro Agnew, who was forced to resign his office after growing questions about tax evasion in 1973.

Matthews floated at the end of his segment that this timeline could all play out in “the coming weeks.” So far Robert Mueller’s investigation has yielded multiple indictments including against former Trump presidential campaign chairman Paul Manafort and former National Security Adviser Gen. Michael Flynn. READ MORE