He's well compensated because he owns a lot of the company, much at much cheaper valuations, right?

For all the complaints about him you can't argue he hasn't delivered a lot of value. Lots of corp CEOs make more with falling company performance and valuation, because they aren't really paid for performance.

>that Americans will tolerate lies, murder, and all sorts of other things from their highest elected officials

Lies are one thing, but murder?

It's not that we don't want to get rid of unethical politicians, we just can't.