Let me get this straight: he hires cronies without national searches, gives out-size raises to members of his own family who happen to enjoy prominent administrative positions, hires and fires people arbitrarily, issues merely verbal (i.e., non-traceable) orders for campus surveillance, drags the names of students through the public mud he has stirred up, implies in the press that people have behaved illegally but then never presses formal charges, and in general acts in ways that bring national disgrace to himself and his institution, and THEN he he expresses amazement that people doubt his word and motives?

If he would just publicly admit, and apologize for, any of the transgressions mentioned above, perhaps people could begin to have some slight faith in his latest pronouncements.