Ty Cobb

Ty Cobb (born 1950) is an American lawyer. He was an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland in 1981–86.

Early life and education Cobb was born and grew up in Great Bend, Kansas. 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, but the specific genealogy is not known.

Cobb received his A.B. from Harvard University and his J.D. from Georgetown Law School. While at Harvard, Cobb became close friends with Senator Al Franken.

Career Cobb served as a law clerk for a federal judge, as chief of the criminal section and head of the region's drug enforcement and organized crime task force. In 1986, he joined the Baltimore law firm Miles and Stockbridge. Two years later, he joined Hogan & Hartson, which became Hogan Lovells.

Cobb successfully defended Hudson Foods against allegations that its executives lied to investigators after a recall of beef tainted with E. coli. The executives were acquitted on all charges.

Cobb is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. and reported directly to Trump.

Cobb said there was no reason to believe that Trump was personally under investigation and that "They're in full cooperation mode and they've been directed to fully cooperate and get this over with as quickly as possible." 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." He repeated that assessment in an ABC News interview on March 5, 2019, adding that he thought that Mueller was "an American hero".

In December 2020, Cobb told Peter Nicholas of The Atlantic, "I believed then and now I worked for the country. I didn't really have any difficulty with that. People's reactions were frequently hostile when they found out what I was doing. How hypocritical is it to think that the Democrats deserve the best people and Republicans don't? I have served both. It's the same country."

Later criticism of Trump Since leaving the White House, however, Cobb has criticized Trump. During the Biden administration, he called Trump "a disaster for the Republican Party" and accused him of "stifling truth". A year into Trump's second presidency, he said that Trump's attacks on the judiciary were "one of the greatest threats to our democracy at this stage of the game". In January 2026, he described Trump's "dementia" and "cognitive decline" as "palpable". In June of 2026, he said "We are witnessing the greatest onslaught of corruption in the history of mankind" .