He feels that he alone can take action, without regard to any of the other institutions which are there to make sure that the rule of law stays intact. And so that, 'Only I can do this,' and that has the sound of, you know, a dictator or a dictatorship.

I would ask everyone to go back and read Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and look at what he was writing about in a fictional sense, and saying, 'Is that where we're headed?,' where you have a ministry of truth, in which you can tell the biggest of lies and you repeat them over and over again until they're accepted as the truth.

That's pretty fictional, but it's not too far removed when you can have the president of the United States say, 'Yeah, I wrote this letter, and it's a perfect letter.'