POTUS is in a bunker?
Marine shot was attempt on his life?
No one is being left behind. The tree values all life. Everyone is going somewhere, except the EL, the reptillians and the anu, who are going to the pit and their branches were removed. The rest either go back to Eden, forward into the next book, or to the pit. Eve ( Earth ) is going with us, after she has been purged.
as you say. I am not here to argue.