A former White House lawyer who served during President Trump’s first term blasted the commander-in-chief’s mental fitness, calling him “clearly insane.”
“I think he’s gone,” said Ty Cobb, who served under Trump from 2017 to 2018, told former CNN host Jim Acosta on his podcast Tuesday.
During the interview, Cobb offered a stark view of Trump’s motivations in office, as someone with experience on the inside.
“Trump historically and continuously has been guided exclusively by his narcissism. His whims, desires, impulses, have been on full display‚” he said. “We’re going to see more and more crazy stuff.”
Cobb served as a federal prosecutor in Maryland in the 1980s before rising to the position of regional director of President Reagan’s Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force.
After nearly three decades in private practice, Trump tapped Cobb to lead the White House’s response to Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
Since leaving the White House, Cobb has become a vocal critic of the president.
On Tuesday, Cobb called Trump “clearly insane,” pointing to his frequent late-night social media rants.
“It highlights the level of his insanity and depravity‚” he added, further criticizing Trump’s decision to launch a war with Iran.
The former White House special counsel also offered searing criticism of the president’s demolition of the East Wing of the White House to build a new ballroom.
A judge ordered a stop to the renovation until it could be approved by Congress.
Cobb was grateful to the court for “halting this ego-driven insane exercise, destroying one of the most beautiful sites and historical sites in our country just out of hubris.”
Cobb’s interview with Acosta is making headlines as the president takes another unprecedented move by personally attending Supreme Court oral arguments in a highly-watched case over the legality of birthright citizenship, which the White House is seeking to end through executive order.
The right of citizenship for those born in the U.S. is spelled out in the 14th Amendment, which begins: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”
At least six lower courts have ruled against the Trump administration on the issue.
