Former campaign aide to President Trump Sam Nunberg said he feels special counsel Robert Mueller is trying to build a case against Roger Stone and that’s why he’s willing to go to jail for ignoring a subpoena.
In an often-bizarre interview on MSNBC that turned into a televised legal intervention, with multiple legal experts telling Nunberg ways he could shrink the scope of the subpoena and that he’d go to jail for up to a year if he didn’t comply, Nunberg said Stone is in Mueller’s crosshairs.
“I’m worried they’re trying to make a case against Roger Stone,” Nunberg said of the longtime adviser to Trump who’s proud of his reputation as a political “dirty trickster.”
When asked what he thought that case might be, Nunberg said, “I have no idea,” but added it could have to do with Stone’s communications with WikiLeaks.
Stone reportedly exchanged messages with WikiLeaks during the 2016 campaign. He teased a forthcoming information dump on Hillary Clinton’s campaign shortly before Wikileaks started publishing Clinton campaign Chairman John Podesta’s emails during the final months of the campaign.
Nunberg said he refused to comply with the subpoena because he wouldn’t be a part of an investigation into Stone. He repeatedly claimed Stone was innocent of any crime, but didn’t have a clear answer for why he wouldn’t help to exonerate him if he was in fact a target of Mueller’s probe.
“Roger did not do anything,” Nunberg said. “Roger was treated terribly by Donald Trump.”
