Sunday's postcard, and celebrating Fani Willis

October 22, 2023

The “Squash Galaxy” from a market bin at Green Bluff, WA

Lady Justice, in Fulton County

Barring a celestial tragedy—like the Chicxulub asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago—historians will eventually settle on a date or an event that signaled the end of peak Trump. They will do this even if forced to wear short sleeves (to better cope with a warming planet) because that’s what gritty historians do. They find a way.

Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis

My suggestion is that this has already happened. I think peak Trump may have ended the day Sidney Powell essentially admitted to lying in her claims that the 2020 election was rigged against Trump.

You may remember Powell as the mono-tonal lawyer in the leopard-print coat who rescued Rudy Giuliani when Giuliani briefed the press with what looked to be used-motor oil draining from both sideburns. As he dripped goo and blathered about “My Cousin Vinny” (the movie) Powell picked up the ball and gave her pitch about Hugo Chavez and rigged voting machines. This was in November 2020.

Sixteen months later, through her lawyers, Powell conceded that her claims of a rigged election were a hoax. In a March 22, 2021 brief (Powell was a named defendant in a defamation case) her own lawyers contended that “no reasonable person” would believe that she was being honest in her allegations, on Trump’s behalf, that the 2020 Presidential election was rigged. Jaws dropped.

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