Trump also asked Cobb what he should do now to shield these records from the prying eyes of prosecutors. That wasn’t really Cobb’s job, as a special adviser to the president on the Russia probe. This battery of questions, combined with Trump’s visible discomfort, created awkwardness for Cobb. The president needed to be talking to his personal lawyer, someone to vent to who was inviolable. Cobb worked for the White House and did not represent Trump personally; therefore, his interactions with the president were not protected by attorney-client privilege. With Dowd out of the picture, that
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