Former Trump aide Sam Nunberg called before grand jury, says he will refuse to go https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/former-trump-aide-sam-nunberg-called-before-grand-jury-says-he-will-refuse-to-go/2018/03/05/24c8b86a-20a9-11e8-badd-7c9f29a55815_story.html?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.0ac2ec4bff54 … by @jdawsey1
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Carter Page has gotta be pretty livid that Sam Nunberg is jumping into his "off-the-reservation cable news interviews" lane.
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Nunberg: "I'm not going to produce them every email I had with Steve Bannon and Roger Stone since November 2015."
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Mueller's people "insinuated that he [Trump] may have done something," Nunberg says of his experience talking with people in the special counsel's office.
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Nunberg, on a discussion he had with Bannon after talking to the special counsel's office: "We both feel like Trump may have done something during the campaign."
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Here, from
@mckaycoppins' Feb 2014 Trump profile, is the background on Nunberg that you need to know: https://www.buzzfeed.com/mckaycoppins/36-hours-on-the-fake-campaign-trail-with-donald-trump?utm_term=.ok8KYGy69#.rl6kVaQBZ …pic.twitter.com/7A96fXF0jx
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And if he didn't before, I'm gonna bet he will very soon.https://twitter.com/PreetBharara/status/970753451557875712 …
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Nunberg, now on CNN, about Carter Page: "Gimme a break, do you think I would ever talk to that moron?"
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"I suspect that they suspect something about him," Nunberg says of the special counsel's office re: Trump.
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"They think that Roger [Stone] colluded with Julian Assange," Nunberg says. "Roger quit because he was absolutely disgusted with how I was treated. ... I came up with the wall. I came up with the Muslim ban."
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"Screw that. Why do I have to go?" - Nunberg, about appearing before the grand jury
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Nunberg: "They probably want to know about Miss Universe 2013, if I had to guess."
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"Trump flat-out refused," regarding offer to have women go to Trump's room at Miss Universe. "Trump is too smart to have women come up to his room."
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NUNBERG IS BACK ON CNN. This time, with Tapper.
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Nunberg: Why should I turn this stuff over? Tapper: You know, it's a special prosecutor. Nunberg: What would you say if it was a Democrat? Tapper: Same thing.
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Nunberg: "Trump decided that he loved Corey [Lewandowski] more than us. Fine ... All we were trying to do is get Corey fired."
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Nunberg says Trump was an "idiot" to talk about Russians with Lester Holt, in his interview after firing Comey.
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"I was very impressed by them," Nunberg says of the special counsel's office. "I think they have him [Trump] on something."
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Nunberg: "Who the hell advised him to let those Russians in the Oval Office?"
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Nunberg: "Yes, I believe Carter Page was colluding with the Russians." — adding that he thought Page was not influential in the campaign.
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"This is a developing story. Check back for updates."https://www.buzzfeed.com/zoetillman/former-trump-adviser-says-screw-mueller-subpoena-in-intense?utm_term=.mlzj6ZBe9#.eexGqo3RO …
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I disappeared b/c I skype'd with a class studying
#SCOTUS — and come back to see Sam Nunberg ON TV.Show this thread -
The lawyers on MSNBC are basically trying to intervene here. Nunberg: "I'm not going to jail. Come on."
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Nunberg: “If Mueller wants to send me to jail, then he’ll send me to jail, and I’ll laugh.”
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So, Nunberg keeps saying he didn't talk to many of the people on the list — undermining a case that this is overly burdensome. If that's so, it will be easy to do. It's basically emails to/from Stone and Bannon.
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If you count the NY1 interview, Nunberg's appearance on CNN next with Erin Burnett will be his sixth interview today. ... But he says he's too busy to comply with Mueller's subpoena.
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"I would be willing to go in for testimony but I want it to be fair," Nunberg says. "I don't want them to target Roger [Stone]. I'm not going to do it."
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"They show nothing that I'm so embarrassed of," Nunberg says of his emails. On collusion allegations: "Vladimir Putin is too smart to collude with Donald Trump."
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