"They apparently believe the President is above the Constitution and has the autocratic power to suspend its provisions"

[eppur_se_muova]

2. "If the President does it, it's not illegal" ... Richard Nixon, who was forced to resign before he could be impeached.

IIRC he said this in an interview w/David Frost, after he had left the WH, and been pardoned. So there was no official response to his unofficial claim. But the fact that he had been facing imminent impeachment is exactly the proof that what he said was false !

Turnip, of course, knows none of this, because he is appallingly ignorant of history even more then he is appallingly ignorant of economics, or business ethics, or human decency. So the costly lesson of Watergate is wasted on him, and the people around him only learned from the experience to agree with Nixon when he said "I should have burned the tapes".