Conservative attorney Ty Cobb, who served in the Trump White House and represented then-president Donald Trump during special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Trump’s 2016 campaign’s contacts with Russia, says he thinks there is a “very high” chance that Trump will be indicted.
During an appearance on CBS News’s “The Takeout” podcast, Cobb said that he believes the former president is likely to face legal consequences for actions related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol and his alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election.
“I think the president is in serious legal water,” Cobb said in the podcast, released on Friday. “Not so much because of the [Mar-a-Lago] search, but because of the obstructive activity he took in connection with the Jan. 6 proceeding and the attempts to interfere in the election count in Georgia, Arizona, Pennsylvania and perhaps Michigan.”
Cobb also told CBS News that he suspects the FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago last month — during which the agency says it recovered numerous classified documents — is related to the Justice Department’s larger investigation into Trump’s actions related to the Jan. 6 attack.
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“It is about the bigger picture, the Jan. 6 issues, the fake electors, the whole scam with regard to the ‘big lie’ and the attempts to … cling to the presidency in a desperate fashion,” Cobb said (video below).
The Justice Department and Trump are currently locked in a legal battle over the documents seized from Mar-a-Lago, with a judge earlier this week granting Trump’s request for a special master to review the materials recovered during the search. The Justice Department has since appealed that ruling.
The development comes as both the Justice Department and a House select committee are investigating the events surrounding the Jan. 6 attack and a Fulton County, Georgia, grand jury is probing Trump’s alleged interference into the 2020 election.
Trump is also facing separate investigations involving his businesses and tax returns.
Watch Cobb’s remarks below from CBS News:
Former Trump White House attorney Ty Cobb: “It is about the bigger picture. January 6th issues, the fake electors, the whole scam with regard to the “big lie.” pic.twitter.com/vRF0U4fjJL
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