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Ty Cobb represented the Trump White House during the height of the Mueller-Russia probe, so he has a unique insight into the former President\u2019s admiration for all things Putin, and his refusal to condemn the dissident Alexey Navalny\u2019s death in prison. Trump\u2019s response, bizarrely, was to compare his own legal troubles to Navalny\u2019s political persecution and likely murder.\xa0 Yet Cobb still feels certain that Russia has nothing concrete on Trump, which was the question of the Mueller investigation. Rather, Putin \u201chas what Trump wants,\u201d he tells David Remnick, \u201ctotal control and adulation and riding the horse with his shirt off.\u201d His quest to secure that power, seemingly by any means necessary, has made Trump \u201cthe greatest threat to democracy we\u2019ve ever seen.\u201d Cobb has been following Trump\u2019s myriad of criminal cases closely, and he has concluded that only the January 6th case concerning Trump\u2019s attempt to prevent the peaceful transfer of power has the potential to derail his political career. If a trial decision is not reached before the November election, and Trump were to win again, he can order the Justice Department to dismiss the case, and \u201cit will be as though it never existed."