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You may be right, but that seems unlikely in the digital age.
With other supreme leaders / authoritarians, they've either lived at a time when evidence was physical documents which can be destroyed, or their crimes were committed at a time when they already had a tight grip on the populace and could disappear people for saying the wrong thing.
Once Trump is dead, all the people presently keeping quiet will no longer have any reason to do so. All these assholes seemed to work on mutual blackmail. You can see this with Epstein, now that he's dead all the blackmail he collected can be shared because there can't be any reprisal.
Additionally, in the current age, history does have many forms and many authors, many of whom are not at risk of being punished by American law.
There's tons of misinformation and hero worship that takes place in spite of easily available evidence to the contrary. If you control the narrative effectively enough no one will even question it enough to seek out that information.
Yes but my point is, there will no longer be an incentive to suppress negative information about him.
There must be so many people with evidence and testimony that could really harm him, but they won't release it or do anything with it for fear of reprisal.