'He's not well': Former Trump WH lawyer says president has become 'insane' and 'extreme'

President Donald Trump has become increasingly unhinged in his second term, and one of his former White House attorneys is warning that his unbridled second term could potentially be attributed to declining mental health.

In a Wednesday interview with Substack host Jim Acosta, Ty Cobb — who was a White House counsel in Trump's first administration — accused Trump of tarnishing "everything that was once dignified and sacred about America." He also suggested that the 79 year-old president was being allowed to run wild in a White House staffed almost entirely by sycophantic enablers.

"He's not well ... You cannot do the screeds he did for the G7, or the things that he had said about Greenland, the things he says about Venezuela, the things he says about his predecessors — Obama, Biden — it's just insane, the things he says," Cobb said. "And I think the story needs to be how extreme this is."

Cobb observed that during Trump's first presidency, he was frequently restrained by more experienced officials like former White House chief of staff John Kelly. He then expressed fear that Trump's second-term advisors like White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller and Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought were encouraging the president to act on his worst impulses.

"This is so far out of bounds. People have to deal with it. It's dangerous, very dangerous," he said. "And look at the damage. We have allies that have been our allies for 100 years, through wars, blood and treasure, who will not share intelligence with us because of the war crimes that Trump has committed. They won't share intelligence with us because they're afraid that it goes from Trump to Putin."

"We are in a place we have never seen before and we need to navigate out of it as quickly as possible or we're going down," he added.

According to Cobb, Trump believes he is "all-powerful" and beyond the reach of traditional checks and balances. He also heaped blame on the Republican-controlled Congress for ceding its constitutional powers to Trump, and lamented that the federal judiciary was not designed to be fast enough to check a rogue administration.

"Between Miller and Vought, they have, through Project 2025 and other designs, sort of handed him a list of instructions and he's executing on it. It's now a situation where he just does what he wants," he said.