Mulvaney outlined how Trump’s legal woes could play out in an opinion piece published in The Hill Wednesday morning.
He described an “outlandish” scenario in which President Joe Biden offers Trump a deal if the former president is convicted. Under that agreement, Biden would pardon Trump in exchange for his dropping out of the presidential race. Biden would then end his 2024 campaign to assure Americans that the deal was not done to make his reelection chances easier.
Mulvaney predicted Trump would ultimately accept that offer. While he said the scenario is not likely to happen, he described how the former president might approach such an offer to avoid serving time in prison.
Even if there was a public, written agreement, signed by Trump in front of the world and notarized and all stating that he would drop out of the presidential race for a pardon - he would try to weasel out of it. It’s simply his nature. You can’t talk a tiger out of his stripes (not that Trump was anywhere as noble as a tiger, though).
Just like his “I never swore to support the constitution”. Lying is so deeply ingrained into his nature, whoever somehow trusts this guy needs his or her head examined.