Trump wouldn’t take Cobb’s advice to sit for the interview instead of forcing it to a subpoena and I think he now knows or has reached the conclusion his (ostensible) client is guilty. He’s had enough and is getting the hell out of Dodge before Trump tries to cut the subpoena off at the pass by firing Mueller.
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On a Wednesday ? So he left voluntarily ?
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Notice the timing of the leaked Mueller questions and Cobb’s resignation. I don’t think Cobb’s the leaker, more likely he was very unhappy with whoever did the leaking. My guess is that there’s still a set of advisors encouraging Trump to talk to Mueller and a set who don’t want it.
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Though this post carries the risk of me catching a (figurative) frying pan against my noggin, Trump would be wise to wait until the midterms are done, before pulling that trigger.
However, we are living in interesting times, sooooo…
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Absolutely. How did you resist trying to teach it naughty words?
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Can you explain your viewpoint? Flood is a real lawyer. There aren’t many documents that Mueller’s team doesn’t already have. There aren’t many witnesses that Mueller hasn’t already gotten testimony from. I get the sense that Mueller has enough to indict a whole bunch of folks.
Perhaps Flood does this same Manafortian nonsense of filing suit after suit to question the Special Counsel’s authority and get him to reveal more of his information to justify his mandate (sort of the dumb bull in a China shop Nunes style) and try to gum up the works. I could see a lot of executive privilege claims. All that means is that Mueller hires a couple more hungry superstars to go after this guy.
It sort of feels to me as if Trump is preparing to contest these things in the courts and not through the political process until at least the November elections.
What I’d really like to see is lawyers working to negotiate his resignation.
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Unless your name is Thomas Magnum.
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He joined the WH counsel office July 2017. So not even a year and they are calling it a retirement instead of quitting.
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There are indeed exceptions to every rule haha
In fact, he also managed to be an exception to the rules that everyone who drives a Ferrari or who wears white pants is a douche.
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Cobb never wanted him to sit for an interview. He believes Trump will perjure himself.
Trump wants to be able to provide a modicum of cooperation, sit for a very limited, Fox style creampuff interview to show he cooperated and demand exoneration or fire people.
Rudy was brought in to finesse that. He won’t get far.
I think Flood is being brought in to fight the subpoenas, claim executive privilege and start filing more claims questioning the mandate of the Special Counsel as Manafort is currently doing.
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“I wish everybody well moving forward.”
Then he quickly jumped and pulled his rip cord.
As the panicked passengers he left behind screamed hysterically.
And the flaming hulk nosedived toward the ground precipitously rushing toward it.
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“Into the blue again after the money’s gone…”
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Cobb did not represent Trump, rather he represented the Office of POTUS – and theoretically, would provide the same advice and arguments regardless of who was president.
We’re not paying for jokers like Sekulow. he’d being paid by the idiots who think that Trump will run for a second term, or by the RNC.
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It was paying with a debit card so I didn’t feel it deserved a hard time. Had it started pecking around for exact change I might have effed with it a bit.
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Getting out while the getting is good!
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Interesting perspective
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My wife is sick of me playing this.
(but she always asks, “who is it this time?”)
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He just wants to spend more time with his family!
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Amateurs
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You might be right. I was misremembering this from TPM’s earlier article:
“Ty Cobb, the White House lawyer who processes requests from Mueller’s team, has a security clearance, but his role dictates that he represents the office of the presidency, not Trump himself. Cobb has not been involved in discussions with Mueller about a potential presidential interview, according to Bloomberg.”
I would revise my thoughts to be that Cobb likely advised Trump to provide written answers to the written questions to avoid it being pushed to a subpoena situation, but Trump wouldn’t listen to that either. He simply can’t. He CANNOT answer. Period. IT’S A TRAP!!!
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