Why did POTUS circumvent Dan Coats? Because Dan Coats is a swamp creature.
The latest speculation around Coats’s potential dismissal comes just weeks after the director of national intelligence (DNI) testified in a high-profile congressional hearing that North Korea is “unlikely to completely give up its nuclear weapons” amid talks between Trump and the country’s leader, Kim Jong Un.
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/430787-talk-grows-that-trump-will-fire-dan-coats
Citing people “familiar with the matter,” the Post claimed Trump has decided that Coats is “not loyal” and “not on the team” after Coats testified before Congress that ISIS had not, as the president has repeatedly insisted, been defeated, and that North Korea was “unlikely to completely give up its nuclear weapons and production capabilities.”
Coats also raised eyebrows this past summer by turning into a blubbering mess after being informed—before a live audience—that Trump had invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to the White House.
https://splinternews.com/looks-like-trumps-found-a-new-underling-to-hate-1832751823