MS NOW anchor Erin Burnett and Trump former attorney Ty Cobb (YouTube Screengrab)
Trump former attorney Ty Cobb expressed professional regret at the transformation of another President Donald Trump lawyer who has clearly fallen over the edge into cringe territory.
Speaking to MS NOW anchor Erin Burnett, Cobb cited acting attorney general, Todd Blanche’s failed attempt to sell Senate Republicans on Trump's $1.8 billion “weaponization” fund on Thursday. Blanche and many other critics describe the fund more as a “slush fund” for Trump and his minions charged with trying to overthrow the 2020 election.
Cobb called Blanche’s embrace of a clearly illegal fund “the culmination of [his] transformation from a once decent lawyer into the complete toady that he's become.”
“He's given up any character and integrity that he ever had,” Cobb told Burnett. “Lawyers who used to work with him and actually were optimistic that he would perform his duties consistent with the oath, no longer feel that way. It's never been apparent to me that he was worthy of that confidence, but he's shown that he will do anything that the president wants, including giving away $2 billion that belonged to the taxpayers in an effort to buy the attorney general permanent position.”
Cobb went on to say that Blanche wasn’t like his predecessor Pam Bondi in that he was not a dyed-in-the-wool MAGA cultist.
“He doesn't have her excuse. I mean, he's not an ideologue,” said Cobb. “He was not wedded to Trump. You know, for years and years … he didn't have the MAGA credentials of Pam Bondi. This is pure and unadulterated ambition. And somebody who, you know, for dollars and power has sold his soul.