If they get special treatment it's because a certain mod likes what they do, a certain user told me that about herself back in 2017. She was not just a user, not just a Trumper, but she was the queen of them, the head, and she ran a gang which started off the Downvote Wars of 2016 to 2017. That lasted until they started turning on each other.
Once in awhile she would bring up if anybody wondered why she got away with so much, just ask her. So I did privately. And that's what she told me, there was a certain mod that liked what she did and as long as she submitted during certain late night hours, there should be no problems. She even told me that she met up with him a couple of times. She lived in a state close to California.
We became quite chummy, and she tried to recruit me do the Dark Side. If you've ever seen me refer to my GF or ex-GF, that was her. She was pretty cool but then started getting all paranoid and went fatal on me. She started telling everybody that half the site was me, including one of her cronies who actually became inactive well before I got active here.