If SBF had been POTUS by November '22, he likely wouldn't be sitting in a cell today.

Not because innocence suddenly appears with office, but because power rewrites the rules of accountability. At that level, consequences slow down, blur out, or vanish behind immunity doctrines, executive privilege, prosecutorial hesitation, and political cost-benefit math.
Law doesn't disappear, but enforcement becomes optional. The higher you climb, the less the system asks what you did, and the more it asks what it would cost to touch you.
That's the real hierarchy: Retail gets punished, mid-level players get negotiated with, power gets insulated.
This is a truth most people sense instinctively even if they're afraid to say it out loud.
At Trump's altitude, the system doesn't ask if he did something wrong. It asks if it is worth detonating the balance of power over what he has done. Most of the time, the answer is no.