Former Trump lawyer calls Mueller 'an American hero,' says the investigations are 'never going to be over'

Ty Cobb, the lawyer who represented the Trump presidency during a critical 10 months of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, says he doesn't agree with President Trump and his personal lawyers that Mueller's Russia inquiry is a politically motivated hoax.

"I don't feel the investigation is a witch hunt," Cobb told the ABC News podcast The Investigation, released Tuesday. Trump was on board with his strategy of cooperating with Mueller, he said, at least "in my first nine-and-a-half months," when "I was able to prevent the president from going on the attack against Mueller." It was when Trump lawyer John Dowd "sent out a critical tweet of Mueller and Rudy [Giuliani] joined the team that the president felt unleashed," Cobb said.

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Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.