Just like the Ukraine fraud + impeachment helped clean sleepers out of the WH, current events are helping to ID the DS still in the Pentagon.
These are the idiots who need to be cleared out before the main feature begins.
Sorry, but that is dumb as it gets.
The line of succession would apply if Trump was no longer CinC – Pence, Pelosi, etc.
POTUS is always CinC but he does allow his subordinates to run day to day ops.