Ex-Trump White House Lawyer Reacts to Giuliani Indictment: ‘Sold His Soul’ for the Former President

An Arizona grand jury indicted Rudy Giuliani and other Donald Trump allies on Wednesday for their role in trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in the state. The news prompted former Trump White House lawyer Ty Cobb to say that Trump’s former personal attorney “sold his soul” for his former boss.

Among those charged were 11 Republican electors prosecutors say falsely signed paperwork declaring Trump the winner of the state. Seven others were also indicted, but their names were redacted. However, the Washington Post reported those defendants are “former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, attorneys Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis, John Eastman and Christina Bobb, top campaign adviser Boris Epshteyn and former campaign aide Mike Roman.”

“They are accused of allegedly aiding an unsuccessful strategy to award the state’s electoral votes to Trump instead of Biden after the 2020 election,” the Post said.

Cobb offered his thoughts on Wednesday’s edition of OutFront on CNN.

“I could see them fashioning this in a way that tries to scope in all the people who actually contacted fake electors, organized fake electors, helped policy-wise in terms of how they were going to do this, which would include Epshteyn. So, I think that’s– that seems to be the distinction that they use in identifying the people that they were going to mention in the indictment, either as unindicted co-conspirators or actual defendants. I do think that Epshteyn is fascinating as a defendant in this case.”

“He’s been with Trump a lot,” host Erin Burnett observed. “I remember he was on the plane going down for the Mar-a-Lago indictment appearances. He’s – of all these people – still in his inner circle.”

“Very much in his inner circle,” Cobb replied. “And very protective of the former president and protective to the point that Giuliani reached when he arguably sold his soul to protect the president under circumstances that were improper.”

In the weeks after the 2020 election, Trump and his allies attempted to subvert election results in states he lost. The former president falsely claimed the contest was rigged against him.

Watch above via CNN.

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