Donald Trump’s former lawyer turns against him as he calls for never-before-used law that would remove president
A former lawyer of Donald Trump himself has questioned the American leader’s mental capacity as he slated him.
Ty Cobb served as a member of the first Trump administration legal team from July 2017 to May 2018. But the attorney has previously stated he never voted for the 79-year-old to be US President.
During his team under Trump, he led the legal counsel in their response to former FBI Director Robert Mueller's investigation into possible interference in the 2016 election.
But now Cobb’s claims follows calls for a never-before-used rule to be enforced to remove the president from his position.
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The lawyer believes that during Trump’s first term, aides would step in to restrain his riskier ideas whereas now, he reckons he’s got people around him who won’t challenge him.
What did Cobb say about Trump?
The former lawyer of Trump has spoken out against him in the past, warning of his re-election in 2020 as potentially being ‘disastrous’.
Speaking to the The i Paper, he believes the President is experiencing some form of cognitive decline as he described a mix of alleged ‘frontal lobe decline’ and even ‘possible dementia’.
"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.
This follows Trump boasting that he apparently ‘aced’ multiple cognitive tests.
Cobb added that the contrast ‘within even five years is striking’ as he said: “The man I observed in the first term was erratic but the man I observe now is erratic without a safety net."
He went on to slam: “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.”
But his ultimate blow came as he referenced Trump’s late-night social media posting and attacks on other prominent public figures as Cobb said: “We’re governed by a madman at this stage, there’s no other way to put it.”
In response, White House spokesperson Davis Ingle told LADbible: "Ty Cobb should immediately seek psychiatric help to treat his severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome, and he should also shave that caterpillar off his face.
"President Trump’s sharpness, unmatched energy, and historic accessibility stand in stark contrast to what we saw during the last administration when Democrats and other lunatics intentionally covered up Joe Biden’s serious mental and physical decline from the American people."
The never-before-used law
There has been increased pressure to invoke the 25th Amendment which can be used to remove the president in certain situations.
It is made up of four sections, with the first three clarifying situations where the vice president may take over from the president.
The first specifies that if the president leaves office (because they have died, resigned, or been otherwise expelled from their role), the VP, in this case, JD Vance, will take over.
The next section specifies that if the VP is unable to take on that role, the president nominates a replacement who will be approved by Congress.
Section three allows the president to temporarily allow their VP to take over, something which George Bush took up on two occasions for medical reasons.
The fourth, however, is a process in which a vice president and the president’s cabinet can declare their leader ‘unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office’.
Topics: Donald Trump, Politics, US News
Jess Battison