After former Trump campaign aide Sam Nunberg gave a series of bizarre interviews on cable news shows declaring that he would refused to comply with a subpoena with special counsel Robert Mueller, Nunberg finally relented on Monday night and said he would ultimately cooperate with the Mueller investigation.
“I’m going to end up cooperating with them,” he told the Associated Press.
Nunberg’s conclusion that he should comply with Mueller’s subpoena for his communications with Trump and several key campaign aides came only after a defiant round of interviews in which he brushed off the possibility of going to jail for ignoring the special counsel’s subpoena.
In his first television interview, with MSNBC’s Katy Tur, Nunberg said that Mueller’s document request was “ridiculous” and that he didn’t want to spend 80 hours digging through his emails. He told Tur that it would be “really, really funny” if investigators tried to arrest him over his refusal to comply.
Throughout Monday evening, Nunberg gave several more interviews, which quickly went off the rails. He called White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders a “joke” and a “fat slob,” referred to Carter Page as a “moron,” and suggested President Donald Trump knew about the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting that his son and son-in-law attended with a Kremlin-linked lawyer.
During an interview with MSNBC’s Ari Melber Monday evening, it appeared Nunberg was beginning to realize the gravity of his refusal to cooperate with Mueller’s subpoena. He asked a panelist on the show whether he would really go to jail for refusing to cooperate.
Talking to the AP Monday night, Nunberg said he would be more willing to comply with Mueller’s document request if investigators ask for fewer emails.
“I’m happy if the scope changes and if they send me a subpoena that doesn’t include Carter Page,” he said, adding that he never communicated with Page.
His call-in to Jane Treacy’s QVC "FFANY Shoes on Sale“ spot was truly on of the most riveting moments on live tv.
His whole melt down, seemed to center around his loyalty to Roger Stone. I didn’t know it was possible for someone to be so loyal to political ratf*cker extraordinaire Roger Stone.
Nunberg: “I’m happy if the scope changes and if they send me a subpoena that doesn’t include Carter Page,” he said, adding that he never communicated with Page."
Jeez, Sam. All that flailing around just for that? As many others noted last night, he was cocked. I watched the Erin Burnett interview this AM. After she asks him, he blushes for several seconds after denying that he’d been drinking. What a fool. I suspect he’ll be looking for another lawyer this afternoon.
Sooo… either his lawyers finally got him to answer his phone
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the buzz started to wear off
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he finally realized his BFF Roger Stone is going to jail with or without his testimony.
“I’m happy if the scope changes and if they send me a subpoena that doesn’t include Carter Page,” he said, adding that he never communicated with Page.
I understand Nunberg is a lawyer by training, so maybe he doesn’t understand how a subpoena works. When you are subpoenaed to produce all communications with someone, you don’t have to create such communications out of thin air. You only have to produce such communications that actually exist.
You’re welcome.