In your educated opinion, who IS in charge now?
Remember they can split the presidency from the commander and chief
Right after the attack of the World trade center Bush signed the National Security Presidential Directive 51 which creates in the white house own words a "shadow government." Under this provision the system is ran by the president and essential agencies.
https://whitehouse.gov1.info/continuity-plan/
"essential agencies" is relative to the threat taking place. the PM of Japan meeting Xiden suggests this is more to do with China then Russia. but that is my opinion.
Guantanamo Bay courts canceled suggest there could be trails of some kind taking place that are critical to this.
Why would he force our hand? The US military has not done their job of over throwing a hijacked election by foreign adversaries.
As long as their is no state of emergency they really couldn't do it. We're in defcon 3 it doesn't get much worse then that.
In my opinion we're going to see a leadership change soon. If it's ANYONE but Harris we're looking at a win.