Donald Trump-loyal “attorney” Sidney Powell is one of the members of the Republican election-sabotage team who pushed the wildest, and most obviously false, hoaxes to justify Republican demands that Trump’s election loss be overturned Because Reasons. There’s good reason to believe she ought to end up in jail as a key member of an attempted coup, but if she’s working on an insanity defense ... it’s going to be a pretty solid one. In yet another revelation from a new book, aka the practice of hiding information vital for the health of our democracy until you’ve got enough of it collected to charge thirty bucks for it, ABC news guy Jonathan Karl reveals that Powell called Trump intelligence official Ezra Cohen in an apparent panic, during the Republican team’s attempt to cobble together conspiracy theories sufficient to nullify a U.S. election. The reason? She evidently believed the Director of the CIA, Gina Haspel, had been captured in Germany while trying to personally retrieve a secret computer server that would prove something-something election fraud Hillary Clinton blueberry pancake glitter bomb. Or something. Read more