Former White House Lawyer Ty Cobb Says Mueller Probe Isn't 'A Witch Hunt'

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Source: HuffPo


Former White House Lawyer Ty Cobb Says Mueller Probe Isn’t ‘A Witch Hunt’
That assessment pits Cobb against his former boss, President Donald Trump.


By Antonia Blumberg
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Former White House lawyer Ty Cobb on Monday said he doesn’t buy President Donald Trump’s claim that the ongoing special counsel investigation is a “witch hunt.”

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Cobb, who stepped down from his post as White House lawyer in May, told host Gloria Borger at CNN’s CITIZEN Conference in New York on Monday that he rejects the president’s analysis of the probe. He also praised Mueller, who he said he has “respected” for decades.

“Bob Mueller is an American hero in my view,” Cobb said during a panel with Jack Quinn, who served as White House lawyer under former President Bill Clinton. “He was a very serious prosecutor. He and I first met in the mid-’80s when we were prosecuting different places, and I have respected him throughout.”

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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), one of Trump’s staunchest allies in the Senate, has also rejected labeling the Mueller probe a “witch hunt.”

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Read more: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ty-cobb-mueller-probe_us_5bcf5123e4b0d38b587cceec

[libdem4life]

1. Wasn't that why he quit? He knew Trump would perjure himself in any inquiry. n/t

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2. I don;t know it but I sure do believe it. I understand he also was dismaysed ...

that one of cheetolini's strategies was to go talk to Mueller and balls his way through it. Cobb felt he couldn't keep him from perjuring himself.

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3. I keep checking DU for news of tRump and his crime family's arrest. I'll keep checking back.

Any day now.

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4. Yet the G.O.P. worships a lying, cheating traitor, and submissively falls to its knees

in the most shameless display of political cowardice in history. The G.O.P. will live in infamy in the history books for selling out American democracy.