If he were literally arrested and the case being eventually dismissed would actually be pretty similar. He might prefer a definition of "getting away with it" a

If he were literally arrested and the case being eventually dismissed would actually be pretty similar. He might prefer a definition of "getting away with it" as hardly anyone knowing or believing it and maybe not involving getting impeached over it and that becoming probably the most memorable thing about his presidency. He partly got away with it but he partly very definitely did not get away with it.