Former Trump White House attorney Ty Cobb didn’t hold back Thursday night as he ripped into not only President Donald Trump – but also his press secretary – in a stinging CNN interview.
Cobb, who once defended Trump during the Mueller investigation, took aim at the president’s defense of his sweeping tariff order in the wake of conflicting court rulings.
“He's making that up,” Cobb said of Trump’s use of national emergencies to justify his tariff plan. “He views himself as all-powerful,” Cobb added. “But just because he says it doesn't make it so.”
But the former Trump attorney saved the brunt of his fire for White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, whom he referred to as “creepy Karoline.”
“I don't think creepy Karoline, when she speaks, I don't think anybody in America really takes her seriously on a matter of substance,” Cobb told CNN host Erin Burnett when asked to respond to her claims Thursday that courts should play “no role” in trade matters.
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“She’s not, you know, learned by any imagination, and I think her comments are clearly so defensive and so ill-informed that people may largely turn her out. She's wrong,” he concluded.
Cobb emphasized that court’s weren’t overstepping in their role of interpreting whether Congress delegated specific powers to the president.
“The statute in question has never in history been used in connection with tariffs. So, I think the likelihood is that this statute will be upheld and enforced in a way that precludes the president from trying to pretend that he has these all-encompassing powers," Cobb said.
When asked how Trump is being affected by being mocked with the TACO acronym, Cobb quickly responded: “I think it bothers him very much,” he said, adding that Trump’s defense of himself reminded him of a “wounded narcissist.”
“He doesn't take criticism well,” Cobb concluded.
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