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Trump’s ‘bald power grab’ could set US on path to dictatorship, critics fear

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Trump 's 69th executive order of his second presidency has been denounced as a bald power grab’ that advances a political doctrine intended to make a dictator of the president.

Order also contains a single paragraph that permits the president to decide the law and who should obey it.

Critics characterise it as another step toward an American brand of despotism.

Even some conservatives who support some of Trump ’s measures are alarmed by a provision in the executive order.

It declares that the president, or the attorney general under the president’ll make the final interpretation of the law for the executive branch in everything from issuing regulations to positions on litigation.

The president is afraid that if he were to simply declare that the Federal Reserve is no longer independent, that would drive the markets crazy.