Former Trump campaign aide Sam Nunberg provided entertaining television as he went — while possibly drunk — on a cable news spree Monday, calling White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders a "fat slob" and vowing to not testify before a federal grand jury.
CNN's Erin Burnett asked Nunberg if he was drunk after he called Sanders a “joke” on NY1.
"Talking to you, I have smelled alcohol on your breath," Burnett said.
"Well, I've not had a drink," Nunberg replied.
"You haven't had a drink? Because it is the talk out there," the CNN host said.
"My answer is no. I have not," Nunberg said. "No. Besides my meds. Anti-depressants. Is that okay?"
Former Trump aid Sam Nunberg on Erin Burnett OutFront on March 5, 2018 (CNN)
Earlier in an afternoon interview with Gloria Borger on CNN, he answered, “Screw that! Why do I have to go? Why? For what?” when asked if he would testify after being subpoenaed as part of Mueller's Russia investigation.
Nunberg then later backtracked from his previous comments telling the Associated Press he would probably end up cooperating in special counsel Robert Mueller's probe.
Nunberg said he tried reaching his lawyer, Patrick Blakely, ahead of his cable news marathon but failed.
“I think my lawyer is going to dump me right now,” Nunberg said during his MSNBC appearance.
The Daily News tried reaching Blakely through his AOL email address but he did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Ex-Trump aide, Sam Nunberg, was fired from the campaign in 2015. (CNN)
MSNBC's Ari Melber said Nunberg had dinner with his father and Blakely after a flurry of interviews.
Nunberg said the special counsel requested he provide "every communication" he had with his “mentor” Roger Stone, Steve Bannon, the former White House chief strategist and Carter Page, the ex-foreign policy adviser.
Asked if he was protecting Trump, Nunberg replied: “No, I’m not protecting him.”
“He didn't do anything.” he continued on CNN. “You know what he did? He won the election.”
Nunberg, who was fired from the campaign in 2015 over racist social media posts, said he suspects Mueller knows something about Trump but didn’t clarify what it was.
Special counsel Robert Mueller has been investigating whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia.(JAMES BERGLIE/TNS)
“The way they asked about his business dealings, the way they asked if you had heard anything even during while I was fired, it just made me suspect that they suspect something about him,” Nunberg told CNN.
“He may very well have not done anything. But regardless of whether or not he had money coming to him during the election — he won that election and he doesn't get credit for it.”
Nunberg went on other cable news shows, including MSNBC, dismissing Mueller’s subpoena. He told the Washington Post the special counsel's office asked him to appear before a grand jury in Washington, D.C. on Friday.
“Let him arrest me,” he told the Post. “Mr. Mueller should understand I am not going in on Friday.”
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, responding to Nunberg’s comments that Mueller might know something about the President, said, “There was no collusion with the Trump campaign.”
“He hasn’t worked at the White House so I certainly can’t speak to him or the lack of knowledge he clearly has,” Sanders said at a Monday briefing.
- ny news
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