Sam Nunberg, a former Donald Trump campaign aide, plans to defy a subpoena from special counsel Robert Mueller requesting campaign documents related to the Russia investigation, saying Monday that it would be "really funny" if he were arrested.
"The president's right, it's a witch hunt," Nunberg told MSNBC's Katy's Tur.
"I'm not going to cooperate when they want me to come into a grand jury for them to insinuate that (former Trump adviser) Roger Stone was colluding with (Wikileaks founder) Julian Assange," he added.
Nunberg, who has already been interviewed by Mueller's office, called the idea that Trump or his campaign colluded with Russia the "biggest joke," but he suggested — without any evidence — that Mueller may have something on the president.
"I think they may," said Nunberg, who served briefly as a campaign adviser. "I think that he (Trump) may have done something during the election. But I don't know that for sure." He didn't provide any details.
I like how at one point he says that Trump did nothing wrong, and then only minutes later suggests that Trump "may have done something during the election."
My favorite part of this exchange is at the end when it seems that Nunberg suddenly realizes that he may have screwed himself and asks Katy Tur what she thinks Mueller might do to him for not complying with the subpoena.
I think I know exactly Mueller might do, and I am certain that Sam Nunberg is going to regret his defiance.
Here was something interesting that former US Attorney Preet Bharara tweeted right after this segment aired.
I think is more than likely.Even if you have someone's emails from other parties to them or from the service provider, you ask for them anyway. Among other things you learn a lot when people selectively disclose.— Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) March 5, 2018
So all Nunberg is accomplishing here is putting a bullseye on this back and alerting the Mueller team that he may have something to hide.
Before I close this post I just want to say that I thought Katy Tur did an EXCELLENT job of conducting this interview and got Nunberg to divulge things that I am certain his lawyer would have wrestled him to the ground to keep him from saying.
Nunberg jumped from this interview to CNN, and that interview paled in comparison to this one with Katy Tur.
And that is why for me MSNBC is the best cable news program on the air today.
Update: Later Nunberg showed up on MSNBC again this time on Ari Melber's show.
There were three lawyers there, and ALL of them told him he needed to cooperate, and genuinely seemed worried for him.Nunberg is getting legal advice from MSNBC guests. @mayawiley point blank told him he should testify... pic.twitter.com/YBTVBHCdZJ— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) March 5, 2018
Update 2: And now this.
Okay, I don't know about anybody else, but I'm a little dizzy.Nunberg tells me he'll probably cooperate with Mueller in the end. He just doesn't want to make it easy. He thinks it isn't fair that they are asking for his personal communications. As of 8pm he says he had not talked to his lawyer.— Katy Tur (@KatyTurNBC) March 6, 2018
Joy Reid "Sam Nunberg was just straight up asked live on TV if he is drunk or on drugs. ... His answer included saying he is on anti-depressants, followed by: “well I didn’t steal from the campaign... I didn’t have an illicit affair...”
ReplyDeleteBig OOPs there.
DeleteWe know about the affairs.
WHO STOLE FROM THE CAMPAIGN?
Erin Burnett just straight up asked him if he was drunk and said she smelled alcohol on his breath, but he denied it. He makes Carter Page seem sane and measured.
ReplyDeleteDamn... Nunberg just hit the Trumptanic and it's taking on water quickly! Trumptards, Abandon Ship!!
ReplyDelete+++++++
DeleteRoger-Roger-Roger Stone/Steve Bannon
ReplyDeleteRoger-Roger-Roger Stone/Steve Bannon/Roger-Roger-Roger Stone/Steve Bannon/Roger Stone/Steve Bannon/Roger-Roger-Roger Stone/Steve Bannon/Roger/Roger RU$$IA>wow
NO le$$ then 39 times does HE say their names, add in Katy - WOW is RIGHT.
DeleteWhat this little weasel doesn't seem to realize is that Mueller already HAS the emails he's requesting...for him to not realize that is hysterically funny.
ReplyDeleteIt's so clear that he's singing his last song on this media blitz he's doing...and let's also wonder why he's being given this blitz...on the phone, easy access to the media...why? From what I can tell, he doth protest too much...this guy is scared SHITLESS and has a misplaced loyalty to his buddy Roger Stone and KNOWS what Stone is guilty of and doesn't want to have HIS emails be the tool that brings Stone down. His false bravado is seriously transparent fear. He's a cornered animal and he's snarling away, but one little push and he's gonna be sobbing and asking for money for the legal fees he's gonna get CRUSHED with fighting to stay out of jail.
You do NOT fuck with Bob 'boa constrictor' Mueller.
Nunberg said repeatedly throughout his day of interviews that he was worried Mueller was attempting to build a case against Stone, whom he considers a “mentor” and “like a father.” Stone said in a statement to HuffPost later that day that he has “no knowledge or involvement” related to any collusion with Russia.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/sam-nunberg-refuses-mueller-subpoena_us_5a9d9fa9e4b0479c0255f9f1
WATCH: Ex-Trump aide Sam Nunberg denies drinking after CNN’s Burnett tells him ‘I do smell alcohol on your breath’
ReplyDeletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/ex-trump-aide-sam-nunberg-denies-drinking-cnns-burnett-tells-smell-alcohol-breath/
‘You’re drunk or off your meds’: CNN’s Erin Burnett confronts ex-Trump aide over freewheeling media blitz
ReplyDelete...“You were campaign advisor from 2011?” Burnett asked. “He was thinking about running that long?”
“Yeah,” Nunberg said, before launching into a tirade against White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders—who Nunberg previously called a “fat slob.”
“I wasn’t planning on asking about this this early in the interview but you talked about her fat mouth, I want to ask you about this,” Burnett said. “It is important. You’ve done six interviews this the past four hours. ‘Bizarre’ was a word that some White House officials were using to describe some of your interviews. ‘Nuts’ is another one … Let me ask you this. You talked about her fat mouth. You called her a ‘fat slob’ in another interview. I reached out to a Trump ally.”
“This person told me, … ‘You’re drunk or off your meds.’ At least half a dozen other CNN reporters have received similar messages. Is this a hit job or is something wrong?” Burnett asked.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/youre-drunk-off-meds-cnns-erin-burnett-confronts-ex-trump-aide-freewheeling-media-blitz/
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/watch-ex-trump-aide-nunberg-swipes-back-fat-slob-sarah-huckabee-sanders/
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/friends-fear-ex-trump-aide-day-drunk-televised-meltdown-may-put-legal-jeopardy/
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/carter-page-going-super-jealous-internet-goes-berserk-sam-nunbergs-bonkers-media-blitz/
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/former-trump-aide-sam-nunberg-continues-public-meltdown-may-done-something-russians/
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/nixon-white-house-attorney-john-dean-blasts-bat-sht-crazy-sam-nunbergs-media-meltdown/
ReplyDelete"“He can take the 5th Amendment. But he can’t tell the [Grand] Jury to get lost,” he continued. “He’s going to lose this fight.”"
"WATCH: Ex-Trump aide Sam Nunberg denies drinking after CNN’s Burnett tells him ‘I do smell alcohol on your breath’"
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/ex-trump-aide-sam-nunberg-denies-drinking-cnns-burnett-tells-smell-alcohol-breath/
"One associate urged Nunberg, a witness in Mueller’s probe, not to do anything stupid and to go to his parents’ house immediately. According to this source, Nunberg promptly hung up. Minutes later, the former Trump campaign aide was on MSNBC via phone, starting a mid-Monday media blitz that would include several different shows on CNN and MSNBC.""
ReplyDeletehttps://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/03/sam-nunberg-says-dubiously-that-trump-knew-about-russia-meeting.html
https://www.thedailybeast.com/what-the-fck-former-trump-aide-sam-nunbergs-mueller-meltdown-leaves-friends-petrified/
"SAM I YAMMER
‘What The F*ck?’ Former Trump Aide Sam Nunberg’s Mueller Meltdown Leaves Friends Petrified
Those close to Nunberg said they fear he was drunk while going on a cable news blitz."
"rump has twice fired Nunberg, and subsequently sued him for ten million dollars.
“Sam Nunberg was fired. He’s a highly self-destructive individual who makes routine calls begging for his job back,” Trump told The Daily Beast in December 2015, in response to Nunberg’s comments predicting that Trump was doomed in the Republican primary. “This is the interview of a desperate person who is trying to hang on and stay relevant.”"
OT: The Dotard just pulled a $arah Palin! (i.e. mixed up North and South Korea!!!) HAHAHAHAHA!
ReplyDeletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/trump-said-north-korea-called-couple-days-ago-turns-talking-south-koreas-president-moon/
http://www.msnbc.com/the-beat-with-ari-melber/watch/sam-nunberg-mueller-offered-me-immunity-1177520707904
ReplyDeleteOT?
ReplyDelete"WAS IT POLONIUM? Retired Russian spy ‘poisoned’ at Salisbury shopping centre sparks fears of Kremin-backed hit — just like the killing of Litvineko
Sergei Skripal, who was granted refuge in Britain as part of a 'spy swap' with Anna Chapman, is fighting for his life after being exposed to an unidentified chemical"
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5733372/russian-spy-feared-poisoned-kremlin-backed-hit/
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/zizzi-restaurant-salisbury-wiltshire-sergei-skripal-russian-spy-a8241401.html
Deleteinvestigate ~IT~^
The Ari interview was fascinating. The two federal attorneys made the case quite eloquently that he would go to jail if he defied the subpoena. One attorney said that she could recall only one time when this had happened with a Special Prosecutor, and that person went to jail for 18 months. You could see Nunberg’s whole bravado diminish immediately. He looked a bit sick, in fact.
ReplyDeleteThat must have hit him hard upside the head since he is now saying that he will cooperate but won’t make it easy.
Nunberg was trying to pull a mask of bravado on his face, but he let it slip a as one lawyer was shaking her head and laughing at his stupidity, the look of naked fear!
DeleteIf Stone didn’t do anything wrong, why not cooperate with Mueller’s subpoena, Nunberg? Clearly, Stone is in deep and guilty as hell or Nunberg wouldn’t be fighting the subpoena so hard.
ReplyDeleteCheck Out All The People Hannity Thinks Mueller Should Subpoena Instead of Nunberg (It’s a Long List)
ReplyDeletehttps://www.mediaite.com/tv/check-out-all-the-people-hannity-thinks-mueller-should-subpoena-instead-of-nunberg-its-a-long-list/
Sam Nunberg: Lou Dobbs, Jeanine Pirro, and Hannity Will ‘Be Very Embarrassed’ Over Trump/Russia
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/sam-nunberg-lou-dobbs-jeanine-pirro-and-hannity-will-be-very-embarrassed-over-trumprussia/
Sam Nunberg: If Mueller Sends Me to Jail ‘I’ll Laugh About It’ and ‘Make a Bigger Spectacle’
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/sam-nunberg-if-mueller-sends-me-to-jail-ill-laugh-about-it-and-make-a-bigger-spectacle/
Defense Attorneys Have Some Legal Advice for Sam Nunberg: ‘Pack Your Toothbrush—Prepare for Jail’
ReplyDeleteThe former Trump campaign aide’s decision to potentially ignore a subpoena has put him in legal jeopardy. America’s top criminal defense attorneys have some advice: first, shut up
Sam Nunberg, stop your mouth from moving.
That’s the legal consensus among some of the country’s top criminal defense attorneys when asked how they would counsel the onetime Trump campaign adviser, whose Triangle Shirtwaist-scale flameout on Monday led confidants—and one anchor—to worry if he was drunk-dialing cable news hosts.
“I would tell him that he’s had his fun, now put on your big-boy pants, shut up and hire a lawyer,” said Charles Clayman, founding partner and chair of Clayman & Rosenberg LLP. Clayman is a veteran New York City criminal defense attorney who has represented defendants in federal and state investigations for more than three decades—and sees in Nunberg’s refusal to comply with a subpoena from Special Counsel Robert Mueller a recipe for legal disaster.
“Hell hath no fury like a prosecutor scorned,” Clayman continued.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/defense-attorneys-have-some-legal-advice-for-sam-nunberg-pack-your-toothbrushprepare-for-jail
Sarah Palin: Trump Is ‘Trying to Win’ a Trade War ‘We’ve Been Fighting for Decades’
ReplyDeletehttp://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/03/05/sarah-palin-trump-is-trying-to-win-a-trade-war-weve-been-fighting-for-decades/
what an ignorant twat.
"I don't know about anybody else, but I'm a little dizzy."
ReplyDeleteYou've probably been smelling your own farts too much, thinking they are so superior..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMTkedIUX8U
G. is feeling sick because he has to read your comments. of course he is superior to you.
DeleteHah. He couldn't even finish college, but assumes intellectual superiority because 'liberal' lol.
DeleteMAGA! We are taking the country back from the liberal intellectual retards (and their Hollywood heroes that are starting to realize that real Americans don't give a shit about their assumed superiority either)!
Cocaine? I lived through the 80's.i thought all the coke heads were dead or in rehab. Found on!
ReplyDeleteThe one subject Sam was consistent on was Roger Stone. Sam basically said he would die for Roger Stone. Why is he feeling so protective? Why so public? Is he getting threats? I don’t care how brave he wants to appear, Sam is terrified.
ReplyDeleteI heard about this on NPR tonight.
ReplyDeleteThe last time such a subpoena was ingnored was for Whitewater and that person spent 18 months in jail.
Nun is supposed to be a lawyer. He should know better.
It isn’t his place to decide what is and is not pertinent to the investigation. His job is to hand over whatever they ask and show up and answer whatever questions then have.
And it’s not a witch hunt when they have evidence of a crime. He can claim it both ways.
He CAN’T claim it both ways.
DeleteStupid Ipad.
I think what we are witnessing on full display with Sam Nunberg we can expect to see or hear about regarding many, many more that didn’t think through the deeply serious consequences of their actions.
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/AdamParkhomenko/status/970840284463620097
DON’T STOP
ReplyDeleteStephen Colbert Can’t Get Enough of Sam Nunberg’s Insane Media Meltdown
‘You know Mueller can arrest you, right?’ the ‘Late Show’ host asked Nunberg.
“Nunberg took over cable news like a car chase,” Colbert said, listing off his many appearances on MSNBC and CNN. “I believe at 5 p.m. he called into HGTV to incriminate himself on Flip or Flop. I’m pretty sure after Mueller gets through with him, it’s going to be flip.”
“You know Mueller can arrest you, right?” Colbert asked Nunberg, who at that point was still insisting that he was willing to go to jail for his cause. “That’s like saying ‘eat me’ to Hannibal Lecter—it doesn’t work out well. It doesn’t have a happy ending for you. He’s just going to marinate you.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/stephen-colbert-cant-get-enough-of-sam-nunbergs-insane-media-meltdown
Nothing about Devin Nunes saying Colbert is dangerous to the nation because he criticizes Nunes and is a mean girl?
Delete"It is an understatement to say that Sam Nunberg is playing with fire,"
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/lawfareblog/status/970848461242486784
OMG how did trump manage to find all these corrupt losers? There isn't an honest one in the bunch
ReplyDeleteI knew that he was a POS back in the nineties; what floors me is when I’m called names by RWNJ supporters that can’t see beyond the end of their nose.
DeleteActually, not floored at all. They will get theirs in due time, if it is not stopped, and I will smirk as they cry because they were so effing stupid to latch onto him.
if you read people magazine or watch tv you knew trump was always was an asshole.
Deletehttps://www.politicususa.com/2018/03/05/tur-nunberg-trump.html
ReplyDeleteTHIS>"While Sam Nunberg and today was bonkers, underscore bonkers, it doesn’t take away from the fact that there are still questions being asked not only of Sam Nunberg, but of others about what the president when he was a candidate knew and when he knew it."
https://www.thedailybeast.com/stephen-colbert-cant-get-enough-of-sam-nunbergs-insane-media-meltdown
ReplyDelete"Speaking to CNN’s Jake Tapper, Nunberg blamed the entire Russia debacle on Trump, who he called an “IDIOT” for hosting Russian diplomats in the Oval Office. “You’ll have to explain that one to me because I don’t understand it,” "“Oh, I can explain it. He was colluding with the Russians. And he said it out loud, because Donald Trump is an IDIOT” Colbert replied. In response to Nunberg calling Carter Page a “scumbag,” the host said, “as opposed to Don Jr., who is a much classier scum-briefcase.”"
Katy Tur Drops Reality Check: Don’t Let Sam Nunberg Distract From Trump’s Possible Crimes
ReplyDelete"While Sam Nunberg and today was bonkers, underscore bonkers, it doesn't take away from the fact that there are still questions being asked ... about what the president when he was a candidate knew and when he knew it."
...The Robert Mueller investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia will not live or die depending on Sam Nunberg’s account of things. But his firestorm of “bonkers” interviews and refusal to comply with the special counsel suggests he has something to hide.
Nunberg’s cover-up only plays into the growing probability that the Trump campaign worked with Russia, at least to some degree, to influence the 2016 election. If they didn’t do anything wrong, then the former Trump aide shouldn’t have a problem putting his emails out there.
As Sarah Jones noted a short time ago, “The danger here for Trump is the more Nunberg screams and hollers that he won’t go and Mueller can’t make him, the more hardened the image of collusion becomes, even if he is just trying to protect his mentor Roger Stone.”
https://www.politicususa.com/2018/03/05/tur-nunberg-trump.html
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/george-w-bush-calls-trump-sorta-making-look-pretty-good/
ReplyDeleteW. was a bad president but he is a human being. trump has to be one of those child eating shape shifting aliens like the Queen of England. how else can you explain what an ugly chunk of ice he is?
DeletePoor Georgie. He is so desperate not to be the worst president ever. He doesn’t realize that he’s already out of the dog house on that. But that doesn’t make him look “pretty good.” Just not as bad as Trump which really isn’t saying much. War Criminal and all.
DeleteBarbara McQuade and Maya Wiley easily shredded former Trump campaign aide Sam Nunberg for insisting he can refuse to comply with the special counsel's subpoena.
ReplyDeletehttps://shareblue.com/barbara-mcquade-maya-wiley-sam-nunberg/
Well, he CAN refuse.
DeleteThen he can be arrested and jailed until he agrees to cooperate/testify. Let’s see him beat the old record of 18 months. I bet he caves once they put the handcuffs on.
So Trump is saying that the investigation of his campaign initiated by James Comey in June 2016 was an Obama conspiracy and a scandal "bigger than Watergate."
ReplyDeleteThis tweet is now evidence in the Mueller probe, as it's further proof of Trump's criminal intent when he fired Comey.
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/970850924431335424
Wow. This guy went off the deep end. Wonder what he was on?
ReplyDeleteSomething must be up for him to act like that or he just wants attention. Whatever it is, wonder what the orange one will tweet from his golden throne in john? This story just gets curiouser and curiouser.
Curious Case of Donald Trump.
Deletethis is getting very strange. is everyone in trump's White House as crazy as him?
ReplyDeleteCNN has two good articles explaining Nunberg and the Trump Freak Show in general.
ReplyDelete"Who Is Sam Nunberg" has a brief bio of this clown. He's a typical d-list rightwinger who has no particular skills other than being and asshole. (Sarah Palin comes to mind.)
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/05/politics/who-is-sam-nunberg/index.html
"Why Sam Nunberg's Insane Interviews Were Inevitable."
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/05/politics/sam-nunberg/index.html
The second article concludes: "The only people willing to bet on Trump from the start were people who had nothing left to lose. No one should be surprised when those same people reveal themselves -- in another context -- as having nothing left to lose."
Currently, this unstable human would have no problem getting an assault weapon.
ReplyDeleteWe are seeing a person having a break down in real time. It appears he is very guilty as are his associates and is decompensating.
Only the best people for Trump.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/zizzi-restaurant-salisbury-wiltshire-sergei-skripal-russian-spy-a8241401.html
ReplyDelete"Zizzi restaurant in Salisbury closed 'as precaution' after suspected poisoning of former Russian spy
Sergei Skripal and an as-yet unidentified woman found unconscious on a bench at the The Maltings shopping centre"
Yesterday I thought he would either jump off a building or get killed in a car bomb.
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