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   Defendant Trump's Former White House Lawyer Says Trump Could Be Charged   
   With Conspiracy, Obstruction, And Aiding Insurrectionists Related To The   
   Capitol Riot   
      
      
       Trump's one-time White House lawyer told CNN he thinks the former   
       president could be indicted in Jack Smith's Capitol riot   
   investigation   
       as soon as Thursday. Ty Cobb also said he thinks Trump could be   
       charged with conspiracy, obstruction, and aiding insurrectionists.   
       Smith's office informed Trump that he was a target in the   
       investigation over the weekend.   
      
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   Former President Donald Trump's one-time White House counsel said Tuesday   
   that if Trump is indicted in the Justice Department's Capitol riot probe,   
   it'll happen as soon as Thursday and no later than Monday.   
      
   Ty Cobb, who served as Trump's White House special counsel in 2017 and   
   2018, told CNN's Erin Burnett that he believes Trump will be charged with   
   obstruction of justice, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding,   
   and   
   conspiracy to defraud the US. He added that he also thinks there's a   
   chance Trump could be charged with giving aid and comfort to   
   insurrectionists.   
      
   "There are a variety of ways to charge this that all boil down to the   
   same   
   conduct," Cobb told CNN Tuesday.   
      
   Specifically, he was referring to Trump's efforts to pressure then-Vice   
   President Mike Pence to reject electors from battleground states that Joe   
   Biden won in the 2020 election; efforts to stop some of those states from   
   certifying Biden's victory; and his potential interference with   
   witnesses.   
      
   "There's an outside chance that he could be charged with giving aid and   
   comfort to the insurrectionists," Cobb added, "as a result of his three   
   hours of inaction" on the day of the Capitol riot, and his "intervening   
   message calling Pence a coward."   
      
   Cobb has long believed that special counsel Jack Smith's investigation   
   into the Capitol riot is the most dangerous legal threat the former   
   president faces.   
      
   "No matter what, the most serious case he faces is the January 6   
   investigation," Cobb told Insider last August. "Not necessarily because   
   of   
   January 6 alone but coupled with the fake electors scheme and the   
   interference alleged in Georgia, Arizona, Pennsylvania, and elsewhere."   
      
   "That's the case that has him at the most risk and is more at the heart   
   of   
   what the Justice Department would take seriously," he added.   
      
   Trump said on Truth Social Tuesday that Smith's office sent him a letter   
   over the weekend formally notifying him that he is a target for criminal   
   prosecution in connection to the sprawling January 6 investigation.   
   Target   
   letters often — but not always — precede an indictment, in which   
   prosecutors formally lay out the criminal charges they're bringing   
   against   
   someone.   
      
   Trump's announcement Tuesday was the biggest sign yet that he could be   
   indicted for a third time. He was previously charged in New York in   
   connection to a $130,000 payment to the adult film star Stormy Daniels,   
   and he was federally indicted in Florida in relation to his handling of   
   classified documents.   
      
   Insider reached out to a lawyer for Trump for comment.   
      
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