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Ty Cobb, a lawyer for Mr. Trump, also privately promised to be a “canary in the coal mine” and provide a heads up if Mr. Trump was going to fire the special counsel team, according to Mr. Weissmann. In an email, Mr. Cobb wrote that he “never made the commitment” described by Mr. Weissmann.

The investigation played out against the backdrop of regular vilification of the Mueller team by Mr. Trump and his allies like Fox News’s Sean Hannity — who turned out to be in regular contact with Mr. Manafort cooking up a “smear campaign” over text messages. Mr. Weissmann, a major target, wrote that such “ad hominem” insinuations of bias appealed to emotion rather than reason.

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President Donald Trump, in what appeared to be an attempt to pressure two major cable news networks, warned against booking two prominent former officials from his first administration.

Trump targeted CNN and MS NOW — formerly MSNBC, which he called “MSDNC” — while denouncing attorney Ty Cobb, a former member of the White House legal team who reported directly to the president, and former Department of Homeland Security Chief of Staff Miles Taylor.

The president called Cobb “one of the Worst Lawyers in Washington, D.C.,” and a “WHACKJOB, who I hardly knew,” and said Taylor is “another major Loser … who I have no idea who he is.”

He charged that both “make livings talking about me like they know me well.”

“So, when you watch these two guys on Television, which, fortunately, doesn’t happen often because there’s very little audience at either CNN or MSDNC,” he wrote, “remember, they know nothing about me — Just two DOPES trying to make a ‘buck’ by pretending to know something about someone who turned out to be very famous.”

Trump already was the president when they served in his administration.

“These two Networks are forewarned not to put them on the air again, because they have no knowledge or credibility with respect to anything have [sic] to do with DONALD J. TRUMP.”

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Last month, Cobb “claimed President Trump is experiencing a ‘significant decline’ in his mental faculties,” according to The Hill.

“I think the dementia and the cognitive decline are, you know, palpable, as do many experts, including many physicians,” Cobb said.

Trump’s social media post came just about the same time that he or someone with access to his social media account deleted what many, including several prominent Republicans, denounced as a racist meme that depicted former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama as apes.

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Ty Cobb (attorney) - Wikipedia 6 25

Ty Cobb (born 1950) is an American lawyer. He was an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland in 1981–86.[2] He has been a partner at Hogan Lovells in Washington, D.C. From July 2017 until May 2018, he was a member of the Trump administration legal team, though he has never voted for Trump.[3][4]

Early life and education

Cobb was born and grew up in Great Bend, Kansas.[5] He is the son of Grover C. Cobb, a radio station owner who was senior executive vice-president of the National Association of Broadcasters (which named one of their prestigious awards for him).[6][5] Cobb's father was vice-president and general manager of KVGB (AM)/FM in Great Bend,[7] and had a key role in forming the Kansas Association of Broadcasters.

Cobb reportedly is a distant relative of the Hall of Fame baseball player bearing the same name,[8] but the specific genealogy is not known.

Cobb received his A.B. from Harvard University and his J.D. from Georgetown Law School.[9] While at Harvard, Cobb became close friends with Senator Al Franken.[10]

Career

Cobb served as a law clerk for a federal judge,[6] then became Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland in 1981-86 based in Baltimore[2] as chief of the criminal section and head of the region's drug enforcement and organized crime task force.[11][12] In 1986, he joined the Baltimore law firm Miles and Stockbridge. Two years later, he joined Hogan & Hartson, which became Hogan Lovells.[9]

Cobb served as special trial counsel during an independent investigation of the Department of Housing and Urban Development in the 1990s.[13]

Cobb successfully defended Hudson Foods against allegations that its executives lied to investigators after a recall of beef tainted with E. coli. The executives were acquitted on all charges.[11] He represented Democratic fundraiser John Huang against campaign finance charges. Huang pleaded guilty in 1999.[11] Other high-profile clients have included Eli Segal, Mary McCarthy, AIG, Office Depot, the House of Saud, IBM, and Medtronic.[9][13][14]

Cobb is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.[11]

Role in the Mueller special counsel investigation

Cobb joined the White House to manage matters related to FBI Director Robert Mueller's special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections, starting on July 31, 2017. Cobb was part of the White House internal legal team[15][16][17] and reported directly to President Donald Trump.[13] Cobb said that he accepted the White House assignment because "it was an impossible task with a deadline." He elaborated further that he had "rocks in his head and steel balls."[5] Cobb was recommended to Trump by John Dowd, who was a member of his private legal team.[12]

Cobb said there was no reason to believe that Trump was personally under investigation and that "They're in full cooperation mode and they've been directed to fully cooperate and get this over with as quickly as possible."[13]

On May 2, 2018, Cobb announced that he was retiring as White House special counsel at the end of the month.[18][19] He issued a statement that "it has been an honor to serve the country in this capacity at the White House. I wish everybody well moving forward."[18]

Cobb stated on October 22, 2018, that he did not think the Mueller investigation was a "witch hunt", as Trump repeatedly called it in the press.[20] He repeated that assessment in an ABC News interview on March 5, 2019, adding that he thought that Mueller was "an American hero".[21][22]

In December 2020, Cobb told Peter Nicholas of The Atlantic, "I believed then and now I worked for the country. I didn't really have any difficulty with that. People's reactions were frequently hostile when they found out what I was doing. How hypocritical is it to think that the Democrats deserve the best people and Republicans don't? I have served both. It's the same country."[23]

Later criticism of Trump

Since leaving the White House, however, Cobb has criticized Trump, calling him "a disaster for the Republican Party"[24] and accusing him of "stifling truth."[25]

Cobb has also condemned Trump's repeated false claims that his loss in the 2020 presidential election was the result of voter fraud, as well as his attempts to overturn the election and his alleged involvement in the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.[26]

See also

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