Trump’s Legal Team Isn’t Playing Well Together

By Tom Schoenberg and Shannon Pettypiece, Bloomberg Businessweek

In August, White House lawyer Ty Cobb made a bold prediction — the cloud cast by the Russia investigation that President Trump hired him to handle would soon lift. If special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian election meddling was still haunting the White House by Thanksgiving, Cobb would be “embarrassed,” he told Reuters, and “worse” if it went past the end of the year.

Seven weeks later, meeting that ambitious timetable looks increasingly difficult. After initial delays, Cobb is finally clearing through a backlog of requests from Mueller for documents and information, ...