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"The indictment of former FBI director James Comey is part of a concerted
effort by Donald Trump to “rewrite history” in his favor, a former senior White
House lawyer claimed on Sunday as he warned of more retribution to come for the
president’s political opponents.
Ty Cobb, who defended Trump’s first administration during the Mueller
investigation into his 2016 campaign’s alleged collusion with Russia, also told
CBS that he doubted Comey would be convicted, if the case ever reached trial.
Trump’s moves, he said on the Sunday morning show
Face the Nation, were
“wholly unconstitutional [and] authoritarian” and an attempt to hoodwink future
generations.
“Trump wants to rewrite history so that the next generation may not know that
he incited a violent insurrection, refused to peacefully transfer the power of
the presidency after losing an election, stole classified documents and showed
them to friends and guests at Mar-a-Lago, and that he was a criminal,” Cobb
said.
“He’s a convicted felon. All, anybody involved in those events that offended
him, they’re in real danger.”
Cobb, a distant relative of the baseball legend with the same name, has become
a vocal Trump critic since serving as his liaison to special counsel Robert
Mueller, and said his role as lawyer for the administration, not as a personal
attorney to the president, allowed him to call “balls and strikes” now.
He laid out why he thought the indictment against Comey, for allegedly lying to
Congress, was fatally flawed; and assailed Trump’s appointment of a White House
aide with no prosecutorial experience to pursue the case, after he fired a
federal prosecutor, Erik Siebert, when he declined to bring charges.
“So, you have the rewriting history stuff. The US attorney that he appointed,
his personal lawyer Lindsey Halligan, her role previously in the administration
was, you know, trying to eliminate the theory that, you know, America had
slaves, at the Smithsonian,” he said.
“She was there to whitewash the Smithsonian and paint America as something that
it isn’t. America needs to learn from the mistakes and lessons that we’ve had,
and one of the biggest mistakes that America ever had was re-electing President
Trump.”"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
