Former Trump White House attorney Ty Cobb said Tuesday that former President Trump will not perceive his new indictment “seriously until the final gavel comes down.”
“He won’t take this seriously until the final gavel comes down … jurors come back and say ‘guilty,’ and he actually gets sentenced,” Cobb said in the interview on CNN’s “Erin Burnett OutFront.”
On Tuesday, special counsel Jack Smith filed a superseding indictment in a case indicting the former president over efforts he made trying to subvert the 2020 election. The superseding indictment has the same charges, but also makes cuts in an attempt “to respect and implement the Supreme Court’s holdings” following a recent ruling by the Supreme Court granting wide presidential immunity.
“This’ll be a lot of delaying tactics by his lawyers,” Cobb said. “They’ve already said it’s the same indictment, clearly it’s not.”
Trump referred to the new filing as “an effort to resurrect a ‘dead’ Witch Hunt” in a post on his Truth Platform site.
“Deranged Jack Smith, has brought a ridiculous new Indictment against me, which has all the problems of the old Indictment, and should be dismissed IMMEDIATELY,” Trump said.
Cobb said he believes “the people that view this as a rescue or as … some retreat by Smith read this completely [wrong].”
“This is what happens in the ordinary courts,” Cobb said.
Trump’s vice presidential running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance (R), went after Smith for the superseding indictment Tuesday, saying it was politically motivated.
Vance said he hadn’t looked at the full document, however, adding that “it looks like Jack Smith doing more of what he does, which is filing these lawsuits in an effort to influence the election.”
“The reason the Supreme Court threw out his lawsuit is because they said it implicated the president’s official acts — of course, which the president has immunity in conducting those official acts,” Vance said.
The Hill has reached out to lawyers and attorneys who have previously represented Trump.