Sam Nunberg worked on the Trump campaign in 2015 until he was sacked in August that year over racially charged Facebook posts. Here are the highlights.
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Special counsel Robert Mueller has requested various documents tied to President Trump and a number of his associates, according to multiple reports.
They could suggest sources of Russian leverage against the president or be relevant to any possible quid pro quo involving assistance with the election or other benefits provided to Trump in return for favorable actions toward Russia. “But, you know, I’m a different breed of cat”.
Nunberg offered a similar comment to CNN. “Why should I hand them e-mails from November 1, 2015?”
Judge Andrew Napolitano said it would be “absolutely misconduct in office if Bob Mueller overlooked something like this”.
Former CIA official Ned Price said the revelation showed Mr Mueller was treating Mr Trump’s “entire senior campaign team like a criminal enterprise”.
Nunberg has a deep rolodex of journalists; a Politico item once labeled him a “frequent reporter-whisperer”. “I don’t know why he went around trying to hide it”. Nader had frequent meetings at the White House a year ago ahead of President Trump’s trip to the region.
Stone is known to have communicated with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and is also a former colleague of Paul Manafort and Rick Gates. Nunberg advised Trump in the run-up to the campaign but was sacked in 2015 and has since been a relatively fringe figure in the president’s orbit.
Nunberg also said that “Trump very well may have done something during the election…”
“He was not really an adviser, Jake, come on – do you really think he was an adviser?” The missing names off this list make it seem more like the latter than the former, especially since no evidence has yet emerged that there was any collusion with Russians, and since the inner-circle figures assumed to be involved in such theoretical connections aren’t named on this list.
Nunberg’s refusal comes after the grand jury investigating alleged collusion between Russian Federation and Trump’s presidential campaign sent him a subpoena seeking documents involving Trump and a host of his closest advisers.
But later on Monday night, Nunberg told Associated Press that, in the end, he’s likely “going to end up cooperating with them”.
Nunberg repeatedly asked the anchors for legal advice. “Talking to you, I have smelled alcohol on your breath”.
“If it were me, I would”, Tapper replied.
A grand jury has subpoenaed documents from a witness that involve the president and numerous associates closest to him, news outlets are reporting. He said he’d traded numerous emails a day with Stone and former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, and said spending 80 hours digging through his inbox to find them all was unreasonable. “Give me a break”.
Sam Nunberg, who worked on the campaign during 2015, said collecting emails and other communications he had with other key Trump advisors, particularly Steve Bannon and Roger Stone, was too much trouble and he would not do it.
The CNN interview, somehow, was even wilder than the MSNBC one: Nunberg took credit for the border wall idea, doubled down on the idea that he doesn’t have to testify if he doesn’t want to, and asked host Gloria Borger if he could put her on hold and take another call while on the air. “Screw that. Why do I have to go?” he told CNN.
Nunberg, who was no longer working for the campaign at the time of the meeting, said Trump is not telling the truth when he says he had no knowledge of that meeting throughout the campaign.
“It’s the biggest joke to ever think Donald Trump colluded with the Russians”.
It’s not surprising, then, that the special counsel would be interested in communications between Stone and Nunberg, especially since Nunberg’s early political work for Trump stretches back to 2014.
“Let him arrest me”, Nunberg said.
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“I think that he may have done something during the election”, Nunberg said.
