Did Trump Claim To Be An Absolute Monarch?

Joel Pollak at Breitbart has an excellent article debunking the central Dem claim that their impeachment theater is a revolt against a president who claims the powers of an absolute monarch--a sort of We The People against George III Redux. That was the tenor of Pelosi's bizarre address, and it came up repeatedly in the Nadler committee testimony by law professors. Nadler's legal adviser, Norm Eisen, also raised it. But, as Pollak demonstrates, Democrats Used Deceptively Edited Video of Trump in Judiciary Committee Impeachment Hearing. In other words, they lied. Or, they continued their lying.

Follow the link for Pollak's full article. What I'll offer here is simply a digest focusing on Trump's actual words and comparing his actual words to the misrepresentations by Dems and their law prof lackeys.

Pollak begins by quoting Pelosi's address, in which she accuses Trump of claiming that he can do "anything he wants":

The president’s actions have seriously violated the Constitution, especially when he says and acts upon the belief ‘Article II says I can do whatever I want.’ No. His wrongdoing strikes at the very heart of our Constitution.

Hmmm. When did Trump actually say that? Pollak traces those words back to an interview Trump gave to George Stephanopoulos back in June, in which Trump discussed the fact that as president he had the power to fire Robert "Bob" Mueller: