Sam Nunberg is currently cold calling cable news stations, spewing what can best be described as verbal diarrhea with a Brooklyn accent.
Former Trump aide Sam Nunberg defiantly says he won’t cooperate with the special counsel’s investigation: “I’m not cooperating. Arrest me.” https://t.co/hYZAaizYps pic.twitter.com/XLWu5VzTGM— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) March 5, 2018
The disgraced former Trump aide is of note because he refuses to cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller. He plans, according to bizarre interviews he gave on MSNBC and CNN, to just “let him arrest me.” He also claims, at different times, that Trump “did something” but also that Trump is the victim of “a witch hunt.” All of this, of course, is excellent awful television.
“I think that he may have done something during the election,” former Trump aide Sam Nunberg says of President Trump, but adds, “I don't know that for sure.” pic.twitter.com/4qpzxGcS2s— MSNBC (@MSNBC) March 5, 2018
But is it exactly credible? Certainly, even an extremely foolish person like Nunberg can say stupid things that could end up being valuable to the Mueller investigation. Still, two things are worth remembering about the suddenly viral Trump aide. First, Nunberg has an axe to grind against the administration. Trump sued him for $10 million dollars! That sort of treatment might make one say dubious things on cable news.
Second, Nunberg was not exactly Trump’s Karl Rove. As one political commentator noted, it’s been 947 days since Trump fired him. In fact, the president kicked Nunberg off of his team over racist Facebook messages back in August of 2015, before the first Republican presidential debate and before anyone took the candidate seriously.
None of this is to say that Nunberg’s weird behavior is helpful to Trump. All of this seems certain to backfire on the former aide, and perhaps on the current president as well. At this point though, the only thing safe to say about Nunberg is that he is a spectacle and an especially ugly one at that.
