Flustered anchor pauses interview after Trump’s former lawyer calls president a 'rapist'

President Donald Trump’s former attorney Ty Cobb shocked MS NOW’s “the Weekend” panel into silence Saturday morning when he called his former client ‘a rapist” on cable television, before millions of viewers.

Cobb, who worked for Trump in his first administration, has made himself a gadfly in Trump’s second term, trashing the president’s unconstitutional behavior and reprehensible character. And he did not wait to tick down the list of accusations against the president Saturday while discussing the Supreme Court’s recent decision to allow Trump to forge ahead with building a “likely illegal” ballroom.

“I think that people need to recognize that when the founders created the Constitution, they expected that Congress diligently would work to control a president who was either not up to the task or, in this case, evil,” said Cobb. “They didn't really draft the Constitution with the expectation that an informed electorate would elect somebody like Trump, a malignant narcissist, convicted felon, rapist, and somebody who was really out to feather his own nest and pursue all these vanity projects.”

At that point, rattled MS NOW anchor Jonathan Capehart interrupted Cobb’s rant with a heated warning and an anxious expression.

“Well, one, well, one, one thing, one thing, Ty. I just have to stop you because you just — you just called the president a, a, a rapist. And that is a legal thing that he has not been convicted of. So, we just got to be, be clear on that,” Capehart stuttered.

“No, you're absolutely right. No, you're absolutely right. He has not been convicted of it. But the federal judge who oversaw the E. Jean Carroll trial said on the record that he was guilty of rape.”

“No, no, no, no sexual assault,” countered a flustered Capehart.

“No. Actually, Jonathan, you're wrong. I'll send you the site,” Cobb insisted. “But that aside—”

“But Finish your answer,” Capehart urged.

“That aside that the courts are lagging metric in the under the Constitution that we that we have that that they can only react,” Cobb continued. “They can't correct problems before they occur. And they have to wait for things to mature and be brought before them by people who have the right to sue. And we've seen standing issues. We've seen other issues permit these projects to go forward, most recently with the ballroom. They concluded that the national trust for historic preservation did not have the standing necessary to bring that suit. Perhaps others will bring it. But the one litigant that could bring all these cases and prevent what we're seeing is Congress. And Congress is doing nothing because of the cowardice of the Republican leadership. It's tragic. But they have let the country down.”

What may have agitated Capehart is the outrageously litigious nature of Trump, who has sued other news organizations for reporting provable facts. Trump sued BBC over reports that even now threaten to pull his own children to the stand, and could force the president to reveal documents that he is currently fighting to hide from BBC lawyers. Trump has also sued the Wall Street Journal for reporting the news of a sexually suggestive card Trump doodled and gave to convicted sex-trafficker and friend Jeffrey Epstein. Trump even signed the card with his signature, which formed the outline of a woman’s body.

Despite the fact that the card actually existed, Trump did not hesitate to try to take the WSJ to court over it, and was later made a fool by the release of the card with what looks like his signature.

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