Former Trump Lawyer Ty Cobb Warns That Former President Is ‘The Gravest Threat To Democracy We Have Seen’

Ty Cobb, the former White House attorney for Donald Trump, warned that Trump is a serious threat to democracy.

“I think you have to take Trump seriously because he poses the gravest threat to democracy that we’ve ever seen,” Cobb told CNN’s Erin Burnett. “On the other hand, I think his legal arguments are, you know, interposed solely for delay. I think as the government’s lawyer and special counsel’s lawyer argued today that, at the end of the day, it would be very scary if there was no accountability.”

“As Trump’s counsel has argued, for the types of conduct that have been charged here, when a president tries to prevent the peaceful transfer of power and uses the levers available to him to subvert the democratic republic and the electoral system,” Cobb said.

“I think the lack of accountability that he desires which Putin has, the Ayatollah [of Iran] has, [Chinese President] Xi has – as you allude to – I think that – he may want an America that is like that. But the founders, when they crafted the Constitution, tried desperately and dutifully to make it plain that this was not gonna be a country where we had a king, this was gonna be a country where we had an accountable executive.”

On January 9, John Sauer, Trump’s lead lawyer in his federal election fraud case, claimed that a president could assassinate a political rival and not be prosecuted for it due to presidential immunity.

This statement was delivered during a hearing at a federal appeals court.

Prosecutors dismissed this argument, with Assistant Special Counsel James Pearce telling the panels of judges that it was “frightening.”

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who ran against Trump for the GOP nomination before withdrawing earlier this month, stated that he would not pardon Trump if he had committed a crime. He did not believe that the former president was the kind of person to take responsibility for his actions.