Attorney General Pam Bondi could lose her law license following a stunning procedural misstep in the case against former FBI Director James Comey, former Trump attorney Ty Cobb says.
Cobb, who served as a White House attorney during President Trump’s first term, told MSNBC anchor Chris Jansing on Wednesday that the case “was never shown to or voted on by a full grand jury before it was presented in open court.” According to Cobb, this glaring oversight could put Bondi—and Lindsey Halligan, interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia—at serious professional risk.
Comey’s defense team has already argued that the irregularity should prevent any further prosecution, bluntly noting that “there is no indictment.” Judge Michael Nachmanoff responded by giving the Department of Justice until 5 p.m. to respond to these revelations.
“Because typically, if an indictment is dismissed, the government has six months to represent, notwithstanding the expiration of the statute of limitations,” Cobb said. “This is an indictment, though, that doesn’t really have to be dismissed. It doesn’t really exist. It was never properly returned. So I think this is I think what we heard today, shocking never, never occurred before in American jurisprudence. I think it was will be dispositive. But on the other hand, there’s so many dispositive issues here, including her illegal appointment.”
Cobb didn’t hold back on criticizing Halligan’s role, calling her handling of the case “the height of ineptitude and misconduct.”
“It’s shocking you couldn’t find a high school stock boy at Home Depot who could have handled this more ineptly than Lindsey Halligan did,” he said. “You know, taking an indictment that the grand jury never saw, having the foreman sign it and then presenting it to a judge?”
Bondi’s involvement could also land her in trouble. Cobb noted that she “backed up Halligan’s documents in court,” which could be a major factor in potential disbarment proceedings.
The conversation also touched on the Epstein files and the broader political maneuvers surrounding them. Cobb suggested that Trump and Bondi have no genuine interest in releasing the documents.
“Trump has no intention of releasing any documents. He and Bondi will scheme and prevent the release, in my view. I don’t think we’ll see any meaningful or consequential documents come out after this based on Trump’s order to prosecute Democrats, not Republicans,” Cobb said.
Cobb added that Bondi might try to use a legal loophole to argue the files are still tied to ongoing litigation, but he dismissed this as disingenuous. “It’s not sincere or genuine. He could have released the documents himself without the legislation,” Cobb said.
Trump’s reversal on the issue, Cobb argued, is purely political. “Trump wants to ‘be on the winning side,’ and that’s why he reversed his stance,” he said.
And when it comes to Bondi’s public statements, Cobb was equally blunt: “Contrary to Bondi’s lies this morning, there is no new information. The government has all this information. Whatever’s happening now is just a fraud.”
Watch the segment below from MSNBC:
