A lengthy Washington Post piece (available here through a gift link) details lawyer Sidney Powell’s sudden rise through the consortium of counsel to take a starring role in pitching the Trump campaign’s argument for a stolen election, to a pariah within the Mar-a-Lago mob, to a witness for the prosecution in a Fulton County racketeering criminal trial against Trump.

Powell is just as screwed as Giuliani, if not more so:  unless his multitude of ex-wives has claims to it, Giuliani still has his New York City pension.  Like Giuliani, Powell’s facing other legal issues besides Fani Willis’s prosecution.  She’s got civil lawsuits from Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic; she’s one of the unindicted co-conspirators in Trump’s federal case in Washington, DC for trying to undermine the election; and she’s facing bar association disciplinary hearings in at least two jurisdictions.

Her decision to take a deal in Fulton County may be as much pragmatic as it is a sign of surrendering to the reality that the election was not, in fact, stolen.  Regardless of whether she believed Trump won in 2020, she finally realized, her actions were criminal and she would incur millions in legal fees before being found guilty.  It’s not unreasonable to believe she’s already talked to Jack Smith’s team to cooperate and avoid major legal fees and jail time.  And this puts someone on the witness stand who was in the room with Donald Trump talking about how he could stay in office.  The bigger fish up the food chain from the Kraken should be very concerned right now.