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Undated: Ty Cobb (born 1950) is an American lawyer. He was an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland in 1981-86.[2] He has been a partner at Hogan Lovells in Washington, D.C.. From July 2017 until May 2018 he was a member of the Trump administration legal team.
Cobb joined the White House to manage matters related to the ongoing investigations into Russian election interference, starting on July 31, 2017. Cobb was part of the White House internal legal team[13][14][15] and reported directly to President Trump.[11] Cobb said that he accepted the White House assignment because "it was an impossible task with a deadline." He elaborated further that he had "rocks in his head and steel balls."[4] Cobb was recommended to Trump by John Dowd, who was a member of his private legal team.[10]
Cobb said that there is no reason to believe that Trump is personally under investigation, and that "They're in full cooperation mode and they've been directed to fully cooperate and get this over with as quickly as possible."[11]
On May 2, 2018, Cobb announced that he was retiring as White House special counsel at the end of the month.[16][17] He issued a statement that "it has been an honor to serve the country in this capacity at the White House. I wish everybody well moving forward."[18]
Cobb stated on October 22, 2018 that he did not think the Mueller investigation was a "witch hunt."[19] He repeated that assessment in an ABC News interview on March 5, 2019, adding that he thinks Mueller is "an American hero".[20][21]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ty_Cobb_%28attorney%29
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May 2: Cobb [had] been discussing his retirement for several weeks and let chief of staff John Kelly know he would be retiring at the end of May, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement. She later confirmed reports that Emmet Flood, who represented Clinton in the late 1990s, is joining the White House staff.
"I've done what I came to do in terms of managing the White House response to the special counsel requests," Cobb told CNN. "I'm extremely grateful to the President and Chief Kelly for the opportunity to serve my country."
A source familiar with Cobb's departure said the former federal prosecutor, who joined Trump's legal team in July 2017, had been clashing with the President in recent weeks over Trump's combative posture with the special counsel's investigation. Trump has intensified his public attacks on Robert Mueller's probe in recent weeks, and on Wednesday, suggested that questions by Mueller's team about whether he obstructed justice amount to a "setup & trap."
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/02/politics/trump-ty-cobb/index.html
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March 5: Former Trump White House lawyer Ty Cobb calls Mueller 'American hero'
Cobb also disagreed with the president's assessment that the Russia investigation is a "witch hunt."
"I think Bob Mueller's an American hero,” Cobb, who joined the White House in the summer of 2017 and left in May 2018, said. "I think Bob Mueller's a guy that, you know even though he came from an, arguably, privileged background, you know, has a backbone of steel."
"I think the world of Bob Mueller. He is a very deliberate guy. And but he's also a class act. And a very justice-oriented person," Cobb added.
“But it's never going to be over,” Cobb said. “I mean, this is going to go through 2020. And if the president is re-elected, it'll go beyond that.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/former-white-house-lawyer-ty-cobb-calls-mueller-american-hero-n979331
March 29: Former Trump Lawyer Ty Cobb: ‘I Regret’ Team Trump’s Attacks on Mueller
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/fmr-trump-lawyer-ty-cobb-on-team-trumps-mueller-attacks-i-regret-that-it-came-to-that/
April 17: Ty Cobb Was Right
The former White House lawyer counseled Trump to cooperate with Mueller and put the probe behind him. Instead, the president chose defiance.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/04/trump-hasnt-learned-the-lesson-of-the-mueller-probe/587344/
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