Just how desperate is the Republican Party to get rid of presumptive Presidential nominee Donald Trump before he becomes locked into the place at the convention and it’s too late to turn back? With his poll numbers plummeting and his favorability rating now the worst on record, the GOP is fearful that Trump will take the entire party down with him in November. One of Trump’s allies is hinting that if the party paid him $150 million, he might be willing to drop out peacefully. And big-money republican voices are already biting on it.

Former Donald Trump advisor Jim Dornan floated the notion on Friday that for $150 million he might be willing to go away. It wasn’t entirely clear whether this was merely one Trump ally mouthing off of his own accord, or if Trump himself was planting this seed and this number with the media as part of a strategy to get a deal rolling. In any case leading conservative republican voice Bill Kristol immediately tweeted out the response “Done.”

Kristol believes he could get fifteen republican billionaires to cough up ten million dollars a piece in order to pay Trump the hypothetical ransom figure, thus getting him out of the race and allowing the republican party leadership to choose some other nominee at the convention in late July. Such a replacement nominee would enter the fray with no mandate, no momentum, no infrastructure, and little if any favor from Trump’s supporters, and would be highly likely to lose badly.

But such a move would allow the republican party to regain control of itself in time to have a fighting chance in congressional races, many of which are now seen as being in danger due to the dampening effect of Trump’s offensive mouth and refusal to work with party leaders in any capacity. So how real or how hypothetical is this notion of paying Trump to go away? Stay tuned.