By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
White House special counsel Ty Cobb questioned whether a reporter was on drugs for asking why the president didn’t send his letter notifying James Comey that he was being fired as FBI director.
The unprofessional question came in an email exchange between Cobb and Business Insider’s Natasha Bertrand, who wrote a story about how the letter may be used as evidence in the obstruction of justice case against President Trump.
Cobb declined to say why the letter was never sent to Comey and asked Bertrand, “Are you on drugs?”
Bertrand shared the exchange on Twitter.
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) September 3, 2017
“Cobb supposedly has a great reputation and is a very respected lawyer,” Bertrand told HuffPost. “He was brought in to bring some discipline to the whole operation. So I wasn’t expecting that response to what I thought was a pretty basic question.”
