Did we back the winning horse in Egypt?

‘Cause the current government sure ain’t looking like Seabiscuit to me.

On the first day of the trial of former Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak, a lawyer in the courtroom declared that Mubarak had actually died in 2004 and that the man believed to be Mubarak was an imposter imposed on Egypt in some Israeli-American conspiracy, according to Britain’s Telegraph newspaper.

Hamad Siddik leveled the charge on Wednesday, as a multitude of lawyers were reportedly screaming at the judge, according to the newspaper.