Ty Cobb calls for Pam Bondi to be disbarred over Comey case
By: Owen Scott (The Independent)
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Cobb says that failures in the Comey case have made it 'dispositive' and also blasted Trump appointee Lindsey Halligan
A lawyer from Donald Trump's first administration has called for Pam Bondi to be disbarred over the botched handling of the DOJ's indictment of former FBI Director James Comey.
Ty Cobb, who was a member of Trump's legal team from July 2017 until May 2018, hit out at the Department of Justice's admission that it failed to submit the indictment of Comey to the full grand jury.
Speaking on MS NOW, he described the failure as "shocking" and suggested that it made the government's case against Comey "dispositive." He added that "Bondi should be disbarred," as well as U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan, who submitted the indictment to the foreperson.
"You know, Bondi has twice submitted affirmations to this court about the propriety of Lindsay Halligan's grand jury presentation," he continued. "She knew this. There's no way she could not have known this.
"And that just means that she lied, or that she's equally incompetent, but more likely that she lied."
open image in galleryTy Cobb, a former Trump laywer, says that Pam Bondi should be disbarred for her handling of the indictment of James Comey (Getty)
Cobb has long been a critic of Trump since leaving the White House, describing him as a "disaster for the Republican Party" in an interview with NBC News. He has also insisted that, although he served in Trump's first administration, he never voted for the controversial GOP leader during a separate PBS interview.
His recent criticisms have been focused on the DOJ indictment of Comey, who faces one charge of making a false statement to Congress and another charge of obstructing a congressional proceeding.
The charges related to testimony given by Comey on September 30, 2020, during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing about the FBI's investigation into alleged links between the Russian Government and Trump's 2016 campaign.
Earlier this week, while speaking to CNN, Cobb claimed the DOJ's case is "dead" and blasted Halligan for, as he described it, telling a grand jury that "Comey didn't have a Fifth Amendment right at trial to refuse to testify."
"And therefore, he would be able to give his explanation as to the events and counter the government's evidence, which the judge noted appropriately was burden shifting," he continued.
open image in galleryCobb claims that there is no way that Bondi could not have known about the failure to submit the Comey indictment to a grand jury (AP)
The Comey case has been mired in controversy since it began, having been filed just before the five-year statute of limitations expired.
Also, Trump's appointment of Halligan as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia was widely criticized, as it followed the removal of Erik Siebert. Siebert had opposed bringing the charges against Comey.
The former FBI Director has pleaded not guilty to all charges of wrongdoing. In a motion filed in a federal court in Virginia, his lawyers have suggested that the case is "vindictive" and an "egregious abuse of power" by Trump.
The Independent has contacted the Department of Justice for comment.
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I cant remember any previous time when a prominent , politically independent, lawyer called for the sitting Attorney General of the United States to be disbarred.
And yet TDS describes him.
You have to be a partisan to claim this Attorney is Politically independent.
He speaks the truth. It’s unfortunate that he ever made a decision to work for Trump, since that takes him down a few pegs right off the bat.
You have to be an idiot not to at least recognize that this attorney has had a LOT more exposure to who Trump is behind closed doors than his average rabble-rousing dumb fuck supporters. I'll trust his opinions over the foaming at the mouth Trump supporters down at the local Piggly Wiggly any day.
Do you actually think that no political independents believe Trump is the worst ?
That has ever lived, No, only non-independent partisans would think that.
He is the worst that has ever lived as president of the United States, and its not even close.
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Why are you attacking Thomas Jefferson like that ?
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Every objective historian will come to the same conclusion. Trump is an anomaly that our grandchildren will be learning about in class, about his pussy grabbing comments and his 34 felonies and his lies and the porn sluts he fucked and paid to keep quiet during his campaign and his inspiring an attempted insurrection and bringing this country to a breaking point playing one side off the other to work up the fury of poorly educated conservative Christian blue collar whites pining for their manufacturing jobs and whining about other Americans refusing to put them on a pedestal or listen to their tired archaic religious morals. Our grandchildren will have the luxury of hindsight so the history books will be able to print Trumps lies side by side with the facts and they will no doubt present Trump as the 'what not to do' President who almost destroyed our constitutional Republic. Though, to be fair, it seems few on the right paid attention in history class anyway which is why they believe hilarious bullshit like that the civil war was over States rights and not slavery and the southern strategy employed by Republicans to create a majority in former Southern Democrat territory was all a hoax that just happened to end up with the very results the Republicans were looking for.
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Please ma'am, can I share in it?
NO! I worked hard for that!
I guess it's time to join Just Jim and Some of the other conservatives on the other site, You all enjoy your rapidly growing echo chamber.
really?
What site is that
So the MAGAs have a Red Sky chat room?
It's called The Mutual MAGA Flagelation Society.
I'm renaming it the Mutual MAGA Masturbation and Self-Flagellation Society
Mutual MAGA Masturbation Association? MMMA?
Why don't we just call all those jerks who circled their wagons around Trump "The Circle Jerks"?
ok I'm down with that
Spoken like a visual representation of mucus...
"Mucinex?!?! I'm outa here!!!".