Former Trump Aid Refuses Mueller’s Subpoena

• Steve
• March 5, 2018
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Former Trump campaign aid, Sam Nunberg, has boldly claimed he will not comply with a subpoena from Robert Mueller dealing with Russia investigation.

In a couple of bizarre interviews on different media outlets from CNN to MSNBC Nunberg stated that “they could come and arrest me” if they wanted him.  He said he didn’t have time to spend going through his emails to produce the material requested in the subpoena.

Nunberg went on to call Donald Trump an idiot and he claimed that Carter Page was colluding with the Russians and “was a weird dude”.

Nunberg was fired early in the Trump campaign for some racist Facebook posts made on his account.  Nunberg claims he didn’t make the posts, but if not him than who? Based on his performance today, it seems as though Mr. Nunberg may be capable of a blowing up any situation.

Washington (CNN)In a defiant pair of CNN interviews, former Trump campaign aide Sam Nunberg said Monday he refuses to comply with a grand jury subpoena in the Russia investigation.

And in a separate interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, Nunberg said he blamed the investigation’s existence on President Donald Trump’s firing of James Comey as FBI director — including an interview where Trump said he was thinking about the Russia investigation when he fired Comey and the fact that he held a meeting with top Russian officials in the Oval Office.

“Donald Trump caused this because he’s an idiot,” Nunberg said.

Seeming to dare the authorities to challenge him on the refusal, Nunberg told Tapper that he would not appear before a grand jury or spend time reviewing his communications in order to comply with the subpoena.

The Trump campaign fired Nunberg in August 2015 after a series of racist Facebook posts came to light, and Nunberg indicated in interviews Monday there was still bad blood between the President and him but that he did not want to spend time cooperating with the investigation and Trump is right to call the probe a “witch hunt.”

Nunberg told Borger that he is not refusing to comply in order to protect Trump.

But Nunberg asserted in the interview shortly afterward with Tapper that he believes special counsel Robert Mueller has “something” on Trump.

“They know something on him,” Nunberg said. “… Perhaps I’m wrong, but he did something.”

Inside the West Wing, multiple White House officials were watching Nunberg’s interviews with rapt attention, and several said they were stunned, calling the interviews “bizarre” and “nuts.”

Nunberg said he was refusing to cooperate with the subpoena because he believes investigators are trying to get him to impugn controversial Trump ally Roger Stone, who Nunberg called his mentor.

“They want me to testify against Roger,” Nunberg said. “They want me to say that Roger was going around telling people he was colluding with Julian Assange.”

Stone denied wrongdoing in a statement provided to CNN.

“I was briefly part of the Trump campaign and has [sic] been the President’s friend and adviser for decades; and would expect that Mueller’s team would at some point ask for any documents or emails sent or written by me. But let me reiterate, I have no knowledge or involvement in Russian Collusion [sic] or any other inappropriate act,” Stone’s statement read.

Nunberg expressed annoyance that the subpoena included a request for communications between him and former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page, who has become a central figure in stories about the Russia investigation.

Nunberg told Tapper that he thinks Page is a “scumbag,” and said he suspects Page of trying to collude with the Russians.

“I believe Carter Page was colluding with the Russians,” Nunberg said, adding later, “I think that Carter Page is a weird dude I don’t think he should have been involved in that campaign.”

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