Trump looking for World Series legal team: Ken Blackwell
Former Cincinnati Mayor Ken Blackwell and Independent Women's Forum Director of Policy Hadley Heath-Manning on the Mueller investigation and President Trump's legal team.
President Donald Trump’s decision to replace White House legal counsel Ty Cobb with Emmet Flood -- famous for representing President Bill Clinton during impeachment proceedings in 1996 -- has only deepened the breadth of his legal bench, according to former Cincinnati Mayor Ken Blackwell.
“It’s just like any good baseball manager,” Blackwell told FOX Business’ Neil Cavuto during an interview on Wednesday. “You keep changing the lineup until you get the team that can win the World Series for you. That’s what this president is doing.”
Cobb has been representing Trump in special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into whether Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election in support of the Trump campaign. He is set to leave this month. “For several weeks Ty Cobb has been discussing his retirement and last week he let Chief of Staff [John] Kelly know he would retire at the end of this month,” White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement on Wednesday.
Cobb’s retirement follows a number of switch-ups on Trump’s legal team, including the hiring of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and the resignation of John Dowd, Trump’s previous lead attorney in the Russia probe. Both Cobb and Dowd favored giving Mueller all the materials he needed to conduct the probe.
“[Trump] can put together a combination of lawyers that he believes will execute his strategy,” Blackwell said. “He is driving the strategy, and he has some great legal minds around him, even if there is constant churning, they’re on their own point.”