Ty Cobb is departing from the Trump legal team and being replaced by one of the lawyers who represented Bill Clinton during impeachment.
The New York Times reported:
President Trump plans to hire Emmet T. Flood, the veteran Washington lawyer who represented Bill Clinton during his impeachment, to replace Ty Cobb, the White House lawyer who has taken the lead in dealing with the special counsel investigation, who is retiring, according to two people briefed on the matter.
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Mr. Flood is expected to take a more adversarial approach to the investigation than Mr. Cobb, who had pushed Mr. Trump to strike a cooperative tone. Mr. Flood initially spoke with the White House last summer about working for the president, but the talks ultimately fell apart because Mr. Flood did not want to deal with Mr. Trump’s longtime New York lawyer, Marc E. Kasowitz, who was overseeing the president’s dealings with the special counsel at the time.
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Trump is preparing for impeachment
A president doesn’t hire an impeachment lawyer unless he thinks that there is a good possibility that he is about to be impeached. Whatever is going to come out in the Mueller report has to be so bad that Trump is getting ready to potentially be impeached by a Republican-controlled House, or the White House is preparing to lose the House and face a Democratic majority that is likely to move forward with impeachment based on the findings in the Mueller report.
Either way, innocent presidents don’t bring in an impeachment lawyer if they have nothing to fear.
The usual note of caution applies. Donald Trump could change his mind at any second, and decide to add Roseanne Barr not Emmet Flood to his legal team, but if Trump is bringing in an impeachment lawyer, it is a bad sign for Republicans as they head into the midterm.
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Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.
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