'Mob boss': former White House lawyer Ty Cobb blasts Trump over new developments in Mar-a-Lago case

Former White House lawyer Ty Cobb compared his former boss and President Donald Trump to a "mob boss" in an interview with CNN Tuesday.

Cobb's comments were in response to new developments in the federal case against Trump related to his handling of classified documents and on charges of obstruction of justice.

Trump reportedly advised his former assistant Molly Michael to tell investigators that she knew nothing about boxes of classified documents discovered at Mar-a-Lago, according to the New York Times.

"You don't know anything about the boxes," Trump told Michael, according to the report.

"I hear Trump, you know, really for the first time in terms of the way this evidence has rolled out now speaking in the terms of a mob boss," Cobb said of Trump's quote. "Giving a direct order to somebody that he probably should have no reason to believe would lie for him but expecting her to do so."

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Cobb went on to say that lying to investigators was "not a line she was going to cross," and that this latest development adds further credibility to special counsel Jack Smith's case.

"Molly (is a) very highly regarded person, very loyal to the president," he said. "But there's a difference between loyalty and breaking the law."