"I would find much stricter control of the banks more reassuring, and a lot more strings attached to how we bail them out."

Good point but you do not want to force banks to make loans with too much risk.

"for his own wicked and evil purposes" He is just an ideologue who thinks he is doing the right thing and has a high opinion of himself and certain amount of paranoia. He thinks lies and boasts and threats are lawful tools for him to use because of his greatness.

ideologue:
1 : an impractical idealist
2 : an often blindly partisan advocate or adherent of a particular ideology.