Former Trump White House attorney Ty Cobb on Sunday warned that President Donald Trump’s attacks on the judiciary now represent “one of the greatest threats to our democracy at this stage of the game.”
Cobb, who served as a lawyer for the White House during Trump’s first term, suggested on MS NOW’s “The Weekend” that Congress had been “neutered” by its own cowardice and by Trump’s attacks, to whom it had “ceded basically all control.”
Trump “dictates everything,” House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) does, Cobb argued. “That’s tragic because the way the Constitution is designed, Congress, not the courts, were deemed to be the first wave of resistance to an evil president,” said Cobb, now a fierce critic of his onetime boss.
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The attorney noted that Congress actually “has greater powers than the president” with its ability to impeach, spend and declare war, but has “handed it to Trump in a basket with a bow on it, which is dangerous.”
