Ty Cobb Out, Clinton Impeachment Attorney In As Donald Trump Lead Lawyer

May 2, 2018

Ty Cobb, President Donald Trump’s handle-bar mustachioed White House attorney, is leaving just as Trump has started really spitting Twitter fire over Robert Mueller’s hotted-up Russia probe.

Replacing Cobb, Emmet T. Flood, the D.C. lawyer who saw former President Bill Clinton through his impeachment. File that under “rich.”

Nothing to see here, folks, the White House said in its statement on Cobb’s departure: “For several weeks Ty Cobb ha been discussing his retirement and last week he let Chief of Staff Kelly know he would retire at the end of this month.”

Cobb is the second major member of Trump legal team to bow out in last several weeks, following the exit of John Dowd. Today’s news comes as Special Counsel Robert Mueller has signaled he may resort to subpoena to get Trump to answer that list of 49 questions in his Russia probe.

Dowd packed his bags in mid March, as Trump’s lead lawyer for the special counsel investigation. That had shocked no one, given that Trump kept ignoring Dowd’s counsel and advice, telling reporters he “would like to” meet with Mueller and team, which Dowd considered too risky.

Dowd’s departure had come less than two weeks after Trump tweeted in response to a NYT report:

The Failing New York Times purposely wrote a false story stating that I am unhappy with my legal team on the Russia case and am going to add another lawyer to help out. Wrong. I am VERY happy with my lawyers, John Dowd, Ty Cobb and Jay Sekulow. They are doing a great job and…..

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 11, 2018

…have shown conclusively that there was no Collusion with Russia..just excuse for losing. The only Collusion was that done by the DNC, the Democrats and Crooked Hillary. The writer of the story, Maggie Haberman, a Hillary flunky, knows nothing about me and is not given access.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 11, 2018

Fast-forward to a few hours before Cobb’s announcement. Trump tweeted “there was no Collusion (it is a Hoax) and there is no Obstruction of Justice (that is a setup & trap)” and more:

There was no Collusion (it is a Hoax) and there is no Obstruction of Justice (that is a setup & trap). What there is is Negotiations going on with North Korea over Nuclear War, Negotiations going on with China over Trade Deficits, Negotiations on NAFTA, and much more. Witch Hunt!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 2, 2018

“The questions are an intrusion into the President’s Article 2 powers under the Constitution to fire any Executive Branch Employee…what the President was thinking is an outrageous…..as to the President’s unfettered power to fire anyone…” Joe Digenova, former US Attorney

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 2, 2018

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