Former members of Donald Trump’s team continue to come out of the shadows once they no longer work for him. The amount of exposure that has happened to Trump thanks to the former members of his team has been astonishing, and not even the members of his legal team can keep their mouths shut. So much for being an excellent judge of character!
Ty Cobb was on Trump’s legal team during the Mueller investigation, and just recently he’s voiced some regrets. In an interview with Kristen Welker on MSNBC, Cobb broke his silence on how some things went down and what he wish had gone differently. During the interview, Welker asked Cobb why Trump hadn’t sat down with Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Cobb said:
I was not involved in those negotiations to the degree that I think the public believes. That was handled by his personal counsel, but under the case law, given the cooperation that was provided by the White House and voluntary production of all documents, voluntary interviews of all people in the White House, the case law suggests that there may be no necessity to sit for an interview.”
Welker also asked Cobb about how Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliana had attacked Mueller. Considering that Cobb had left Trump’s legal team shortly after Giuliani joined, Welker asked Cobb, “Did their strategy work?” Cobb responded that he had disagreed:
Their approach was not my approach. Their approach certainly drove up the negatives of the Mueller investigation. I would have liked to see both sides leave the investigation behind with sufficient dignity and I think that dignity is sort of being restored in the wake of the results which showed that Mueller was the honorable balls-and-strikes guy that I thought he would be.”
When Welker asked if the attacks on Mueller “stripped away the dignity of the process,” Cobb stated it had been “beneficial for the president” because it increased Mueller’s negatives. Cobb then voiced his regrets:
I regret that it came to that. Over the course of the long battle, particularly when in the president’s view that he had been wrongly accused and that this was just a political exercise that had been initiated well before he was even in office, I think his frustrations were — he wore ’em on his sleeve and he didn’t hesitate to call them out.”
It doesn’t take a genius to understand that the way Trump and his team do business has stripped away any dignity for even the most serious, important issues this country is facing.
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