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Trump’s Former Lawyer Turns On Him After Spotting ‘Worrying Change’

Lawyer Ty Cobb has once again spoken out against Donald Trump.

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High-powered attorney Ty Cobb represented Donald Trump, mostly during the Robert Mueller investigation in 2017 and 2018. But Cobb soon turned on his former client and, in recent years, has occasionally spoken out against him.

Now, Cobb says Trump should be removed from office, due to his “mental state.”

The comments came in an interview with the iPaper. In it, Cobb described Trump’s second term as “scary and dystopian.”

“We’re in a real crisis here in the US,”  Cobb added, calling Trump a “dictator” who is “destroying our democracy.”

Cobb also said that in his second term, Trump had some people around him who could say “no” to him, but that isn’t the case anymore.

“That’s different from now because there’s nobody in the White House [who] is assisting the President with acting lawful or morally,” Cobb said in the interview.

“Trump created this because of the controls he faced the first time around. Now you have grifters and sycophants, and that is not a minor deviation from norms: it’s unprecedented in American history,” Cobb said. “It’s made us vulnerable domestically and internationally and it’s fueled the divide in the country”.

Cobb also pointed out what he sees as changes in the president’s mental health, and not for the better. He believes that the president suffers from “long-running malignant narcissism.”

“The narcissism has always been an issue for him but in an absence of the impulse control the frontal lobe provides it has unleashed furiously, which is why we see revenge, corruption, delusions of grandeur and [alleged] abuses of power,” Cobb said. “There has never been a President before who announced war crimes he would commit at 4am or danced on the grave of decorated public servants like Robert Mueller.”
“This is a man who has demonstrated he’s way beyond any ability to lawfully carry out the duties of the office and has no business in the position,” Cobb added.  “We’re governed by a madman at this stage, there’s no other way to put it.”
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Stephen Silver is an award-winning journalist, essayist and film critic, and contributor to the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Broad Street Review and Splice Today. The co-founder of the Philadelphia Film Critics Circle, Stephen lives in suburban Philadelphia with his wife and two sons. Stephen has authored thousands of articles that focus on politics, technology, and the economy.

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