'Neutered by its own cowardice': Ex-Trump White House lawyer blasts Congress on MSNBC
Former White House Counsel Ty Cobb, who served during President Donald Trump's first term, scorned the U.S. House and Senate on Tuesday, calling lawmakers chickens.
Speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace on "Deadline White House," Cobb addressed the recent resignations of three assistant U.S. attorneys in the Southern District of New York after they refused to admit wrongdoing in the case involving New York City Mayor Eric Adams.
Wallace asked Cobb how someone like Todd Blanche could let great attorneys leave. Cobb explained that he was lucky enough to only serve as a counselor to the Office of the President and not to Trump himself. Blanche, Cobb said, has always had loyalties to Trump as an individual.
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He said that it makes the Justice Department a "sad place."
"The Justice Department's job to present the interests and beliefs of the executive branch and the judiciary's obligation to take that into consideration, but, you know, carry out the contemplative obligations that they have to weigh, whether, you know, the government, through the executive branch, is overreaching, you know, has has been a back and forth that's been a collaboration over time. But now, because of [Bondi's] abject defiance and disrespect, which has drawn the interest of judges, including the Supreme Court," Cobb said.
He also cited Judge Harvey Wilkinson, the Fourth Circuit Court chief, who "highlighted the fact that [Bondi's] conduct, and that of her department, was likely to cause great difficulties for the country. Unless they abandoned that course and resumed dedication to the Constitution, we're going to be in a bad place. And I think we're already there, given the number of individual vengeance-oriented cases that you see."
He called the personal attacks through executive order "clearly unconstitutional and violations of the First Amendment."
"I think we're going to be in a very difficult circumstance, put a lot of pressure on the courts. I think the courts are up to it, but unfortunately, the courts weren't designed as an immediate response team. And of course, sadly, you know, we have the legislature, which the congressman can speak to, but the legislature has been neutered by its own cowardice. They're really not even participating in this war that's going on for the future of our country."
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