MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow said the quiet part out loud in saying Trump should drop out of the presidential race to avoid jail time.

GALLAGHER: They want to put the primary political opponent of Joe Biden in prison. They want to do that. Maybe they are willing to say he will take a plea deal where he doesn’t have to go to prison as long as he doesn’t run for president. That is how terrified the Rachel Maddow’s of the world are of Donald Trump. Here she is on MSNBC.

MADDOW: ‘I can’t imagine him ever pleading guilty to anything.’ I mean, we’re all — who among us wants to spend too much time floating around inside his mind, even proverbially? So, who knows what’s gonna happen. But if this is as strong a case as the indictment makes it look, right, and that’s the prosecutions best-case, it will get challenged in court, it will be an adversarial process, we will see how strong the defense is, but if the indictment is that strong and the Justice Department is going to treat this as a like case compared to other people who have been charged under the Espionage Act for mishandling classified information, then he is looking at jail time. And 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 lenience. And we’ve seen lots of people, including Reality Winner, a very high-profile case, plead in exchange for lenience and still get jail time. What can he offer prosecutors other than his confession, his cooperation? I mean, this is a crime he can only commit because he was in high public office. Spiro Agnew used that as a get-out-of-jail-free card. It’s not just that he was vice president, it was that prosecutors assumed that he was about to become president because Nixon was teetering, they were right. In order to keep Agnew out, they traded him essentially jail time for his resignation.

GALLAGHER: There it is. Sometimes they say the quiet part out loud.