Donald Trump’s former White House lawyer, Ty Cobb, saw evidence of obstruction of justice in the former president’s alleged orders to one of his long-time aides.
Cobb joined CNN’s Erin Burnett on Tuesday to discuss the new reporting that Trump made to-do lists for his assistant, Molly Michael, on the back of the marked classified White House documents. Burnett was particularly interested in Cobb’s thoughts about how Trump reportedly ordered Michael to tell investigators, “You don’t know anything about the boxes” of classified documents he kept at Mar-a-Lago.
Trump faces obstruction of justice charges for his alleged subversion of the government’s efforts to retrieve those documents, so Cobb took the former president’s words as an order for his staff to commit obstruction as well.
“I hear Trump — really, for the first time in terms of the way this evidence has rolled out — speaking in the terms of a mob boss, giving a direct order to somebody that he probably should have no reason to believe would lie for him, but expecting [Michael] to do so,” Cobb said. “There’s a difference between loyalty and breaking the law, and that’s not a line she was going to cross. So it really is Trump directly ordering obstruction, and that will certainly be helpful to enhance the credibility of others who will testify about the obstruction.”
Cobb made his point by bringing up Yuscil Taveras, the former IT director of Mar-a-Lago, who made a deal with Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office to cooperate with prosecutors in exchange for immunity. The assessment from Cobb also backs up multiple legal commentators who agree that Trump’s reported orders look like witness tampering on top of his mishandling of classified documents.
Why weren’t these people saying things BEFORE this all blew up? Why?!?!?!!???
Because they’re complicit, and at the time they thought they’d get away with it
Because the alternative is going to jail for the crimes Trump ordered them to commit.
Because they were hoping to get away with it and be on the side of the jackboot instead of failing and having to deal with the consequences of their actions.
Facing consequences will do this to people.
Is this a real question? Seriously?
Just a reminder that Ty Cobb (along with John Dowd) is the absolute genius who decided to have lunch at a restaurant directly next door to the New York Times Washington bureau and loudly discuss strategy on how much to (not) cooperate with the then-ongoing Russia investigation into the Trump White House … while a New York Times reporter happened to be having lunch at the very next table.
I’ve actually met and somewhat know this guy. All his one-on-one discussions are loud af and he’s the kind of guy that blurts out comments during presentations, to the point where it became a bit of a joke to those around. Seems like a decent guy for what it’s worth though
and all you cunts played right along, didn’t you
Pepperidge Farm remembers
Ty Cobb, huh? I wonder what his parents think of black people.
It’s disappointing that Sandy Claws worked for Trump.
Who knew Tommy Chong was trump’s lawyer?
I’m sorry but in all honesty who gives a shit at this point? What is this whole drawn out process going to tell anyone that they didn’t already know or instinctually feel? Who’s genuinely going to be swayed in one direction or another? Every Trump post is essentially redundant at this point and frankly has been for years. Same as every Hunter post. What new thing are you going to learn from this?
The world wasn’t broken all at once. It was broken slowly, methodically, by repeating falsehoods often enough that people believed them to be true. We’ll have to tell people the truth the same way: persistently.
