Cobb was part of the White House internal legal team and reported directly to President Trump. Cobb said that he accepted the White House assignment because "it was an impossible task with a deadline."
Ty Cobb (born 1950) is an American lawyer. He was an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland in 1981–86. He has been a partner at Hogan Lovells in Washington, D.C.. From July 2017 until May 2018 he was a member of the Trump administration legal team.
On May 2, 2018, Cobb announced that he was retiring as White House special counsel at the end of the month. He issued a statement that "it has been an honor to serve the country in this capacity at the White House. I wish everybody well moving forward."
Cobb's father was vice-president and general manager of KVGB (AM) / FM in Great Bend, and had a key role in forming the Kansas Association of Broadcasters. Cobb reportedly is a distant relative of the Hall of Fame baseball player bearing the same name. Cobb spent his childhood in rural Kansas.
The White House announced Saturday that President Donald Trump appointed Ty Cobb, a former federal prosecutor, as White House special counsel.
Cobb works as a partner in the investigations practice of the law firm Hogan Lovells in Washington, D.C., and is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, according to a statement from the White House. He graduated from Harvard University and earned a law degree from Georgetown, the statement said.
In the past, Cobb successfully defended beef processor Hudson Foods against charges that company officials lied to investigators after a massive recall of meat contaminated with E. coli. The officials were acquitted of the charges, according to The Daily Nebraskan. Hudson was bought by food giant Tyson Foods Inc.
Dowd, who recommended hiring Cobb, is Trump’s personal lawyer. Cobb reportedly favors turning over as many documents as possible, as quickly as possible, to Mueller’s investigators. McGahn, while favoring cooperating with Mueller, is said to be cautious about actions that he thinks would make it harder for Trump or his successors ...
Cobb also said that he wanted to do the job because “more adults in the room will be better,” identifying himself and White House Chief of Staff John Kelly among them. Cobb told Mother Jones that he “was trying to turn someone who appeared angry into a friend. And privately. My bad.
Regardless of the quality of his lawyering, Cobb appears to be unreliable, incautious, and to have fraught relations with colleagues.
September 18, 2017. The pressure of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into the Trump campaign and administration has reached such levels, reports The New York Times, that “White House officials privately express fear that colleagues may be wearing a wire to surreptitiously record conversations” on Mueller’s behalf.
At the beginning of the month, several outlets reported that Mueller had obtained a letter that Trump drafted, but did not send, to Comey explaining his firing. The letter, described as a “rant,” focuses heavily on the president’s anger that Comey had not publicly stated that Trump was not personally under investigation.