Retiring West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, a former Democrat who turned independent in May in hopes of saving his career in what has become a solidly red state, has a suggestion for Joe Biden: pardon Donald Trump.

After all, the president just pardoned his son Hunter for tax and gun crimes after telling the world for months that he would do no such thing. Pardoning Trump would be the only to make this look less like the corrupt maneuver that it so clearly is, Manchin told CNN’s Manu Raju on Monday: