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Man does whatever he wants at the top, with support of experts to ensure it's legal (or at least deniable illegal) as long as other people in power get to do what they want and these other people get the presidential stamp when it matters.
There is so much noise. So much crap flying everywhere, that nobody is able to actually see the important piece of sweetcorn flying through someone's skull. (Or whatever).

Generate noise & outrage. Like real massive noise and outrage:
Wars (perhaps legit reasons, but unreasonable response causing the scandal), pedophile scandals (it's legit, but the handling is a scandal), ridiculous trade wars (arguably well intended (preferring local manufacturing), execution is nothing but "fuck over the little guy" with the added benefit of larger guys buying up the little guys going broke). Pardons that subvert their own administration's promises.
All the while, the US government is sailing through bills for "protect the children" masked mass surveillance, age verification, abortion bans, literally everything and anything to suppress actual people.

As soon as the Epstein list's redaction has been resolved:
troops will be deployed in another unwinnable war in Venezuela.
US trade relations will be in the toilet and other trade groups will be strengthened (UK is already rejoining some EU programmes, there are no-US trading groups getting established, so many trade deals that now ignore/exclude the US).
The US population will suddenly be under surveillance that hasn't been seen before (flock, ICE, and all the KOSA related bills). You think the UK OSA is bad? KOSA (and related) look to be worse.