It’s not often that the fact-checking website Snopes looks into a claim that a president is “worse than anyone in our history.” But they did just that last month, in evaluating a claim made by attorney Ty Cobb, who, as a member of the White House legal team, represented Donald Trump during the Russia investigation in his first term.
The comment came from Cobb in a recent Facebook comment, in which he used that statement to trash his former client.
“[Trump is]worse than anyone in our history in my experience and opinion,” Cobb said in the comment. “As people seem to have forgotten, I was very critical of Biden and despite knowing him and his family well, I spent 4 years writing about his cognitive decline and weak foreign policy. He had competent advisors though including very decent men as AG and head of the FBI. While you could fairly question their effectiveness you couldn’t doubt their character. Trump has real contempt for the country, appoints wholly unqualified people to key positions and just kicked 12 million people off Medicaid, eliminated child food support and killed worldwide healthcare efforts monitoring pandemic-producing diseases including Ebola (among countless other dangerous things).”
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Snopes did not seek to fact-check the accuracy of the statement that Trump is “worse than anyone in our history,” but it did confirm the accuracy of the attribution: Cobb really is the genuine author of that Facebook comment. Cobb emailed the outlet to confirm, and stated that “I didn’t realize it was being so widely circulated.”
Cobb is known for his distinctive facial hair, for being a distant relative of the early-20th-century baseball player of the same name, and for the time when he and another Trump lawyer “talked loudly” about the case in a Washington restaurant and were overheard by a New York Times reporter, who reported on what they said.
Over the years, Cobb has frequently criticized Trump, for everything from his attempts to overturn the 2020 election to other tactics both in and out of office.
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