They have a cool loophole for it. President can pardon those who commit crimes he asks them to commit. See what he did for thousands of insurrectionists and a lot of his friends who bribed him.
This was probably expected. What wasn't expected is that voters would put the people doing this back into office AFTER they had done it.
Through this entire experience, the greatest revelation for me has been this:
There is a very large number of massively stupid people who live among us. Much more so than most of us expected.
There's a different interpretation where the existing laws constrain the executive, there is no "unitary executive", and the result is a highly constrained presidency. E.g. Biden attempting to use explicit language written by Congress to do something and being told he could not do so by the judiciary (for "reasons").