I do not like this giving away power angle - continuity demands that there is always a leader, always a president. Trump will at all times remain and continue to be President until China Joe is gently remanded into comfortable custody and given a cool drink and a set of rubber tits to play with while his trial is scheduled.
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His term expires on Wednesday at noon right?
Yes. According to the 20th Amendment there is a hard line on January 20 at noon between one Presidential Term and the next. If no clear winner from the previous election has been accepted then the Speaker of the House is the "acting" President until the next duly elected candidate is sworn in. The question we're faced with is whether or not any Q arrests will remove people in the line of succession. With the Trump/Pence term ending at noon, if the Speaker of the House and President Pro Temp of the Senate are taken out of the running, then who takes over? It's never happened before so no one knows if Pompeo will be a fall back or if the commanding military officer currently in D.C. will be a sort of temporary steward. It will be interesting to watch unfold.
For starters it is to be the Speaker of the House, but she could be under arrest. Then the next position is the Senate President pro tempore which is: Senator Chuck Grassley...WOWZA!!!