Ty Cobb - DJT’s former attorney. This is harsh.

This is from Trump’s former lawyer Ty Cobb. He was a former member of the Trump legal team and he speaks out:

[Trump] is worse than anyone in our history in my experience and opinion. As people seem to have forgotten, I was very critical of Biden and despite knowing him and his family well, I spent 4 years writing about his cognitive decline and weak foreign policy. He had competent advisors though including very decent men as AG and head of the FBI.
While you could fairly question their effectiveness you couldn’t doubt their character.

Trump has real contempt for the country, appoints wholly unqualified people to key positions and just kicked 12 million people off Medicaid, eliminated child food support and killed worldwide healthcare efforts monitoring pandemic producing diseases including Ebola (among countless other dangerous things).

His tariffs, like his bibles, crypto and extortion of colleges and media companies and his efforts to rewrite history, are purely personal, corrupt and have zero policy based support. They are just exercises in the power he craves so intensely. He has and will continue to damage our economy and the world’s, and our culture, until and unless he is stopped.

Fortunately, the courts have shut down his Constitutional overreach in over 180 cases—96% of the cases he has brought or defended in the last six months—but without Congress, which has been neutered by its collective cowardice, the tide cannot turn completely. We are more vulnerable economically and on national security than ever before in history as he and Hegseth have rendered the military unprepared by eliminating the majority of its most experienced and enlightened leaders.

Healthcare is in the toilet under RFK JR and many diseases are or soon will be on the rise due to the elimination of vaccines and the defunding of the sciences which made our energy, environment and healthcare the envy of the world. And, finally his Bible and crypto grifts to name a few are pure greed. His net worth is up over $3 billion since taking office 6 months ago.

No one has ever seen corruption at this level by a President. Most of these actions have been pure exercises in power and greed and have no guiding principle beyond self interest and vengeance. Competence, leadership, science, and the rule of law which historically distinguished us from petty dictatorships have all been abandoned or curtailed to serve his ego and narcissism. His narcissism is so real and so extreme it dominates and is at the heart of everything he does and always has been.

We can only hope the norms he has broken and the damage already done to us economically and to our stature in the world (where we have gone from the beacon of liberty to isolated bully in just months) can be restored perhaps in a generation and that the damage yet to come will be less severe but the country is in real trouble and sadly the weakest among us will feel it the worst. Moreover, the cognitive decline we saw in Biden is very real with Trump as well. His us versus them approach to Americans has been more divisive than any prior President.

Just yesterday he announced how much he “hates” all Democrats. “Hate” worked for Hitler, briefly, but no one considers it a leadership trait. His racism is palpable. The country needs new leaders with character and I don’t care if they are Republicans or Democrats, never have. Just want someone honest, principled, intelligent and compassionate who can unite us.

Trump in my experience is none of those things. This is what I believe and why I am engaged. I could of course be tilting at windmills but don’t really have much choice if I want to sleep at night given the stakes as I see them.

What an idiot! As soon as I read that he thought Biden had a competent AG…I quit reading. Biden and 0bama had the most political AGs the USA has ever known. Glad Trump got shed of this Mr. Cobb. He seems just another severely afflicted TDS sufferer.

BTW TW, had lunch with my good Albertan friend on Friday. He laughs when I ask him if Albertans really hate Trump.

quote:

If you conclusively know better, please speak up.

The thing is "conclusively know" doesn't have just one foundation.

Lane proves that with every post.

I never trusted Ty Cobb's opinions, and I loathe the thought and oncoming accusation that when he changes his tune to harmonize with mine, suddenly I agree with him.

However, the fact remains that he ought to really "know" something and his foundation is far, far better than most. That's why he turned me off in the past with some of the crap he said.

Obviously he's speaking within his realm of real knowledge, evidence based, despite his prior leanings and perhaps bias.

He is not alone in the list of knowing people who have finally seen the light. It took a while for evil to inspire good in some people.

quote:

Obviously he's speaking within his realm of real knowledge, evidence based, despite his prior leanings and perhaps bias.

Yes obviously!

Some folk's opinions have more credibility than others.

That's a fact.

Do you know why? And haven't you noticed?

What is credibility's basis?

Is it sincerity, passion, self-ID, the friends?

Or is it truth, said dispassionately, founded in evidence?

Here's a guy who could present his case to a jury and often win. That's gotta mean something even if he won for the wrong reasons.

He can play both sides of credibility - evidentiary or passionately.

You OTOH only have one trick in your tool box.

quote:

BTW TW, had lunch with my good Albertan friend on Friday. He laughs when I ask him if Albertans really hate Trump.

Leave it to you to have a friend who speaks for 5 million people…

IMO, that article from Cobb ought to be read several times, and dissected.

I quoted the last part:

quote:

No one has ever seen corruption at this level by a President. Most of these actions have been pure exercises in power and greed and have no guiding principle beyond self interest and vengeance. Competence, leadership, science, and the rule of law which historically distinguished us from petty dictatorships have all been abandoned or curtailed to serve his ego and narcissism.

His narcissism is so real and so extreme it dominates and is at the heart of everything he does and always has been.

We can only hope the norms he has broken and the damage already done to us economically and to our stature in the world (where we have gone from the beacon of liberty to isolated bully in just months) can be restored perhaps in a generation and that the damage yet to come will be less severe but the country is in real trouble and sadly the weakest among us will feel it the worst. Moreover, the cognitive decline we saw in Biden is very real with Trump as well.

His us versus them approach to Americans has been more divisive than any prior President.

Just yesterday he announced how much he “hates” all Democrats. “Hate” worked for Hitler, briefly, but no one considers it a leadership trait. His racism is palpable. The country needs new leaders with character and I don’t care if they are Republicans or Democrats, never have. Just want someone honest, principled, intelligent and compassionate who can unite us.

Trump in my experience is none of those things. This is what I believe and why I am engaged. I could of course be tilting at windmills but don’t really have much choice if I want to sleep at night given the stakes as I see them.

==================================================

So, one way to understand is to show contrast.

We all know this is in the backdrop of all the discussion about Charlie Kirk, the passion, etc.

And the blame.

Of course the Right blames the generic Left, projecting and such.

No doubt, Trump is inflaming - that's what he does.

So, what is the generic Left and how does it differ compared to the generic Right?

I've been looking for a thread (new or existing) to post this thought on:

There is no "WE" in "US vs THEM". That's what distinguishes Trumpism, Kirkism, the Right vs the Left. That's the polarization.

Here's a short article from a true liberal, one who really represents liberal (and Americam) ideas, and is a giant contrast to the demonization Rightists like to bestow.

https://open.substack.com/pub/...ost&utm_medium=email

Sunday thought: What unites us
Robert Reich
Sep 14, 2025

Friends,

After a horrifying week — horrifying not just because of a politically motivated assassination but also the brutish and angry response from people who should be pulling the nation together rather than adding fuel to its divisions — many of you are understandably worried about America’s future.

As I travel around the United States, I hear concerns that America is losing its identity.

But what is that identity? If you examine our history, you’ll see that the core of that identity has not been the whiteness of our skin, or the uniformity of our ethnicity, or agreement on religion, or like-mindedness about sexual preference or orientation.

The core of our national identity has been the ideals we share: our commitments to the rule of law, to democratic institutions of government, to truth, to tolerance of our differences, to equal political rights, and to equal opportunity.

We have not always achieved these ideals, to be sure, but most of us have been committed to seeking to achieve them. Indeed, generations of Americans have been willing to sacrifice their lives for these ideals.

These shared commitments inform our judgments about right and wrong. They constitute America. Without them, there is no “we” in We the People.

Trump and his lackeys want us to forget these shared commitments. He is using every tool at his disposal — even this past week’s heinous murder — to subvert them.

But We the People will not — must not — let him.