Bill Weld: Trump ‘Looks Like He Would Rather Be a King than a President’

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WELD: "Well, you know, I’m going to play it the old-fashioned way. One voter at a time in New Hampshire. I’m taking off for New Hampshire and Vermont to campaign tomorrow. But as I say, I think the President’s approach here, I’m not going to play ball, I’m not going to exercise any of my responsibilities, I’m going to hollow out the State Department, the Defense Department, the Homeland Security Department so all that power will revert to me, the President individually, and I’ll make all the decisions and I don’t have to listen to Congress or anybody else. That’s, you know, for want of a better word, that's not the American way. That’s how a king or a despot would act, and the framers of our Constitution, if nothing else, they were united in their desire to make sure that we didn't have another king in the United States. Donald J. Trump, candidly, he looks like he would rather be a king than a president who had to work to earn and preserve the trust of the American people. And as president Lyndon Johnson once said, once you lose the trust of the American people, as Mr. Nixon did when the tapes proved he had been lying for years to them, you’ll never get it back."