In the latest move during the current purge of people in Trump’s administration, he has fired the person who said that the recent election was the most secure in US history. (I wrote about the official expecting to be fired two days days ago.)

Trump fired Christopher Krebs, who served as the director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (Cisa), in a tweet on Tuesday, saying Krebs “has been terminated” and that his recent statement defending the security of the election was “highly inaccurate”.

The firing of Krebs, a Trump appointee, comes as Trump is refusing to recognize the victory of the president-elect, Joe Biden, and removing high-level officials seen as insufficiently loyal. He fired Mark Esper, the defense secretary, on 9 November part of a broader shake-up that put Trump loyalists in senior Pentagon positions.

Krebs had indicated he expected to be fired. Last week, his agency released a statement refuting claims of widespread voter fraud. “The November 3rd election was the most secure in American history,” the statement read. “There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised.”

Krebs, a former Microsoft executive, ran the agency, known as Cisa, from its creation in the wake of Russian interference with the 2016 election through the November election. He won bipartisan praise as Cisa coordinated federal state and local efforts to defend electoral systems from foreign or domestic interference.

Of course Trump would fire someone who seems like he may have actually been competent at his job. What our very stable genius president wants is people like Rudy Giuliani who continues to make a fool of himself, this time in arguing Trump’s case before a federal court in Pennsylvania. Giuliani had inserted himself as a lawyer in this case at the last minute after the original lawyers withdrew even though he has not tried a case in federal court since 1992. And it shows.

Update from U.S. district court in Williamsport, Pa., one of the Trump campaign's last stands:

GIULIANI: “I’m not sure what 'opacity' means. It probably means you can see.”

JUDGE BRANN: “It means you can’t.”

— Dan Zak (@MrDanZak) November 17, 2020

Here are some other Giuliani gems from the hearing.

Judge asks Rudy if the complaint pleads fraud. He says it does. Then suggests it doesn't. Then says it should be 'interpreted' as charging fraud. Then he says it doesn't plead fraud with particularity. Then he says it doesn't plead fraud. Then he says it pleads a 'plan or scheme'

— Tony Webster (@webster) November 17, 2020

“Maybe I don't understand what you mean by strict scrutiny” is not a phase your attorney should say (a) ever, and (b) especially before a federal judge

— Tony Webster (@webster) November 17, 2020

Even I have an idea of what ‘strict scrutiny’ means and I am not a lawyer.

Apparently Giuliani had asked that he be paid $20,000 per day by the Trump campaign for his legal services. Imagine how much more he could have charged if he knew words like ‘opacity’ or what ‘strict scrutiny’ meant.

One of the Trump campaign’s election lawsuits had already been dismissed by the Pennsylvania supreme court. They are sure putting in a lot of effort into Pennsylvania even though Trump trails by over 70,000 votes in that state.

While we are on silly topics, people have noticed that since the election Trump’s hair color has gone from that preposterous blond to gray.

Uhm.
Anybody wanna talk about how Trump's hair is suddenly white as a sheet of paper??? 👀 pic.twitter.com/TAg7cITjTB

— blep (@nikobloop) November 13, 2020

What might that mean? Is it a secret signal to QAnon followers that the game is afoot? As Q says, “Do your research!”