Former White House attorney Ty Cobb on Friday appeared on MS NOW’s “The Beat with Ari Melber” to discuss the federal indictment of journalist Don Lemon, but the conversation took an intriguing turn when he named senior Trump administration officials he believes deserve immediate impeachment.
Melber argued that Lemon’s arrest on federal civil rights charges is part of an ongoing Trump campaign to crack down on his critics. Lemon was indicted in connection with his coverage of a recent protest in Minnesota against Trump’s immigration agenda.
When Melber asked Cobb “how many” such cases the Department of Justice must bring before U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi is charged with “a potentially impeachable offense,” Cobb — who became a vocal Trump critic after serving in his first administration — didn’t hold back.
“Well, it should only be one,” Cobb told Melber. “If there’s one fraudulent, unsupported indictment that’s brought for personal reasons, political reasons in which the facts are distorted and the law is abused, that alone should be impeachable.”
The former White House attorney decried the “wealth of evidence” that he says already exists to impeach Bondi before Melber asked if Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche should be ousted as well.
Cobb argued Blanche might certainly have committed an impeachable offense when he interviewed Ghislaine Maxwell, co-conspirator of late child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and allegedly “extorted” her confession that Trump never did anything “inappropriate.”
Maxwell has notably been positioning herself for a pardon and was moved to a cushier prison after defending Trump, which Bondi oddly denied in sworn testimony to Congress, prompting Cobb’s suspicion that she made it “in exchange for favorable treatment.”
Following his teardown of Bondi, Cobb took aim at two more faces of the Trump administration: Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
“Kristi Noem, who’s supervising the execution of American citizens and lying about them as being alleged terrorists,” said Cobb, referring to the Homeland Security chief and her accusations against two Minnesota residents killed by federal agents last month.
“Hegseth and the multitude of classified violations that he has, as well as the war crimes being committed at his behest,” he continued, referring to the U.S. military strikes on alleged drug smugglers Hegseth has overseen since September.
“All of those people should be impeached,” Cobb concluded.
Cobb, who served as special counsel during Trump’s first term, then revisited his thoughts on the president and possible corruption, saying there’s “extraordinary information out there.”
“The $500 million bribe from the UAE in exchange for our AI chips, the $480 million plane from Qatar in exchange for an Air Force base, and him parking his Venezuela oil revenue account in Qatar,” said Cobb. “The facts here are just extraordinary and unprecedented.”
Cobb concluded, “This is not a matter of degree. This is a ripple in the force. Impeachment, however, is a weak tool in the hands of a Congress where you have people like [House Speaker] Mike Johnson and others who are willing to do whatever the president desires.”