Cobb
Ty
Cobb
is
back
on
his
bullshit.
And
by
that,
I
mean
back
on
a
talk
show
calling
out
his
former
boss,
Donald
Trump.
The
former
Hogan
&
Lovells
partner
turned White
House special
counsel
(in
the
Trump
I
regime) has
taken
to
the cable
news
circuit to
make
some biting
comments about
Trump.
Cobb
left
the
hallowed
halls
of
Biglaw
to
join
the
first
Trump
administration,
but
he quickly
left. Since
then,
he’s
taken
to
the
airwave
with
his
signature
facial
hair
with
a folksy way
of cutting
through the right-wing
BS.
His
latest
appearance,
this
time
on
The
Jim
Acosta
Show,
keeps
that
streak
alive,
and
then
some.
Cobb
didn’t
hedge.
He
didn’t
soften.
He
didn’t
even
do
that
lawyerly
thing
where
you
bury
the
lede
under
a
pile
of
qualifiers.
Instead,
he
went
straight
for
the
jugular:
“It’s
not
a
surprise
that
we’re
in
this
much
trouble.
It’s
not
a
surprise
given
the
fact
that
the
cabinet
will
not
invoke
the
25th
Amendment
for
a
man
who’s
clearly
insane.”
That’s…
not
exactly
subtle.
But
then
again,
subtlety
has
never
really
been
Cobb’s
brand
in
this
phase
of
his
post-White
House
life.
And
he
wasn’t
done.
Cobb
pointed
to
Trump’s
late-night
posting
habits
that
read
less
like
presidential
communications
and
more
like
someone
lost
a
fight
with
their
group
chat,
as
evidence
of
something
deeper.
“And
this
war
highlights
that.
And
these
screeds
that
come
out
nightly,
at
2
a.m.
or
4
a.m.
or
whatever
time
Trump
decides
to
vent
without
oversight,
it
highlights
the
level
of
his
insanity
and
depravity,”
Cobb
said.
Acosta,
perhaps
channeling
the
audience
at
home,
asked
the
obvious
follow-up,
“You
think
he’s
just
gone?”
Cobb’s
answer,
“I
think
he’s
gone.
And
he
makes
it
obvious
every
day.”
The
former
Biglaw
partner
turned
White
House
lawyer
turned
media
critic,
is
making
increasingly
dire
pronouncements
into
the
void,
while
the
people
with
actual
authority
pretend
not
to
hear
it.
At
some
point,
you
have
to
wonder
who
this
is
for.
The
cabinet?
The
public?
Himself?
Or
maybe
it’s
simpler
than
that.
Maybe
this
is
just
what
accountability
looks
like
in
2026.
No
formal
consequences,
no
institutional
checks,
but
a
series
of
increasingly
blunt
TV
hits
where
former
insiders
say
the
quiet
part
very,
very
loud.
You
can
watch
Cobb’s
appearance
below.
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Senior
Editor
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