[Reposting an excerpt from a current thread about "Orange Stain"]
"Either the Executive Branch follows the Law, or it doesn't. But the Constitution requires that it do so. Law is the basis for civilization and therefore its historically acknowledged component -- the Nation State. So the idea that "saving the country does not violate any law" is a self-contradiction. Are we saving the country by violating the basis of the country itself? This is insane nonsense -- equivalent to arguments made by the Nazis or Hitler. Actually, Trump's quote is unmistakably plagiarized from Napoleon -- one of the great dictators of modern history."
So again, the insane contradiction in Trump's statement -- only valid for living under a dictator -- which -- an American with any brains would call "insane" as follows: The Nation-State under the Constitution IS the Law, given the relationship between Law and civilization. So Trump is saving "the country" [the Law] by breaking the law, but he breaks no law.
A citizen might as well just win a lottery like Powerball, Super-Lotto or Mega-Million -- arrange a blind trust for some part of it, and then finding surreptitious means of payment to respondents of ads placed in Soldier of Fortune Magazine -- then decide whether the residual risk to life and reputation is worth it as a sacrifice.