This is not 4D chess. The deep state is happy to destroy the office of the president. Their entire strategy is to limit the public’s ability to influence government, and the president is the most powerful direct representative in the nation. He’s the one giant wrench that the voters can toss into the machine every four years. If they can sabotage the position via capturing and abusing it, to the point where everyone is calling for its powers to be destroyed, then the deep state wins - because they already hated the office and wanted it gone.