'Are you on drugs?': Top Trump lawyer Ty Cobb slams 'rabid' press in lengthy response to questions o

[Julian Englis]

Source: Business Insider

'Are you on drugs?': Top Trump lawyer Ty Cobb slams 'rabid' press in lengthy response to questions on Comey letter

White House special counsel Ty Cobb, who was appointed to represent President Donald Trump in the Russia investigation, on Saturday issued his lengthiest statement yet about a letter the president wrote in early May laying out his reasons for firing former FBI Director James Comey.

Trump reportedly listed Comey's refusal to confirm publicly that he was not personally under FBI investigation as one reason for his dismissal. White House counsel Don McGahn ultimately blocked him from sending the letter, according to reports last week in The New York Times and Washington Post. The letter is now being examined by FBI special counsel Robert Mueller.

In an email to Business Insider on Saturday night, Cobb took direct issue with a story published on Saturday afternoon outlining how the advice McGahn gave to Trump about the letter could prove pivotal in the obstruction of justice case that Mueller has reportedly been building against the president.

Cobb disputed the characterization of the president's letter as incriminating — and therefore blocked by McGahn — and called reporting to that effect "exaggerated and/or fictionalized."

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-lawyer-ty-cobb-comey-letter-2017-9

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Cobb wrote the reporter at 1:30 in the morning on Saturday, asking if she was on drugs. Good to know there are adults working with the President.

Link to tweet

[Scarsdale]

1. Maybe it was

Cobb's turn to babysit tRump that night? I wonder when he will decide to jump ship? He really should make sure the checks get cashed first!!

[GoCubsGo]

2. I suspect that is pure projection.

Me thinks Cobb is the one on drugs.

[Achilleaze]

3. Projection is standard operating procedure for republicans

republicans never take responsibility for their own shit. They call themselves "conservatives" but that is total horseshit. They are irresponsible greedheads who always try to blame others for the very shit they are excreting and then wallowing in. Deplorable.

[rurallib]

4. maybe Cobb was looking for a fresh supply and just inquiring as to availability?

[mpcamb]

9. Make Cobb urinate in a bottle and send it for testing.

[bagelsforbreakfast]

5. Ty should have stuck with baseball n/m

[shanny]

6. Trump hires the best people, the very best

[highplainsdem]

7. Poor ol' Ty Cobb must want to ask Trump that every day. So he takes it out on the media.

[not fooled]

8. Maybe he left his phone lying around

during a midnight consultation with his client (prolly SOP for that bunch) and dump got hold of it.

Either way, not the best approach to making your client look presidential.

[DBoon]

10. Maybe Ty Cobb should be institutionalized:

" was in my room and I was just like staring at the wall
Thinking about everything
But then again I was thinking about nothing
And then my mom came in and I didn't even know she was there

She called my name and I didn't even hear it
And then she started screaming, 'Mike, Mike'
And I go, 'What, what's the matter''
And she goes, 'What's the matter with you''

I go, 'There's nothing wrong, mom'
And she goes, 'Don't tell me that, you're on drugs'
I go, 'No, mom, I'm not on drugs, I'm okay
I was just thinking you know, why don't you get me a Pepsi'

And she goes, 'No, you're on drugs
I go, 'Mom, I'm okay, I'm just thinking'
She goes, 'No you're not thinking, you're on drugs
Normal people don't act that way'

I go, 'Mom just give me a Pepsi, please'
All I want is a Pepsi and she wouldn't give it to me
All I wanted was a Pepsi, just one Pepsi
And she wouldn't give it to me, just a Pepsi"

[FakeNoose]

11. Impulse control is not his strong suit

Obviously!

Perhaps Natasha Bertrand was baiting him? Maybe there was some kind of previous exchange between them and he felt he could go off the rails and it would be kept private? We can only guess.

On second thought, I don't think I want to know. I've really had it up to here with the post-midnight tweets.