Former Trump lawyer shreds president's 'delusional fantasy'

Donald Trump once again repeated his false claims about the 2020 election during a high-profile speech before world leaders, prompting a "searing denunciation," according to Mediaite, from his former lawyer Ty Cobb, who called the president "delusional" and said "his narcissism has run amok."

On Wednesday, Trump gave a lengthy address at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, which drew widespread criticism as rambling, low-energy and littered with falsehoods. Among those falsehoods were Trump's oft-debunked claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him due to massive voter fraud, claims for which he has never been able to produce concrete evidence and which courts have long dismissed. During the speech, Trump falsely claimed that his allegations about the election had been proven correct and pledged that criminal prosecutions were coming for those allegedly involved.

"The rigged election. Everybody now knows that," Trump said. "They found out people will soon be prosecuted for what they did."

During a Wednesday evening appearance on CNN, Cobb, a one-time member of the first Trump administration's legal team, turned outspoken opponent of the president, did not mince words in his reaction to the speech, prompting a stunned reaction from host Erin Burnett.

"He can’t get into a sentence without raising a grievance," Cobb said. "And he can’t get into a sentence and find his way out without either, you know, asserting some revenge-based point, you know, some fantasy, delusional fantasy such as the alleged rigged election, which [former attorney general] Bill Barr made clear to him was not the case before having to resign because of the coup that Trump wanted."

Cobb went on to denounce Trump's repeated claim that he has ended "eight wars" during his second administration, arguing that "nobody knows what they were."

"This is a man who is who is demented, and his narcissism has run amok," Cobb added. "And I don’t think there’s anybody outside the boundaries of the United States who believes for a second that Trump is saying at this stage of the game and those in the United States are merely in denial or so invested in him, they can’t — they can’t accept what their lying eyes tell them."

"Wow!" Burnett responded. "Powerful words."