By Steve Neavling
Ticklethewire.com
Sam Nunberg, who helped launch Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in 2015, embarked on a surreal, daylong media blitz in which he defiantly dared special counsel Robert Mueller to arrest him, called the president “stupid” and suggested Trump colluded with Russia to undermine the 2016 election.
But after a string of interviews in which he denigrated Trump, called the Russia investigation “a witch hunt” and pledged to ignore a subpoena to appear before a grand jury Friday, Nunberg told the Associated Press that he likely would comply.
Nunberg’s tirade shocked lawmakers and even prompted a CNN reporter to ask if was drunk.
At times erratic, angry and confrontational, Nunberg disclosed he was interviewed by Mueller’s team, which is investigating whether Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia to wage a propaganda campaign against his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton. Nunberg, who was fired from the campaign in August 2015 over racially insensitive Facebook posts, said that it was unfair he was ordered to turn over emails he exchanged with a host of former top campaign officials, saying it would take dozens of hours.
“I think it would be really, really funny if they wanted to arrest me because I don’t want to spend 80 hours going over emails,” he told MSNBC.
His demeanor and message dramatically changed later in the day, telling an AP reporter that he’s willing to comply but believes the scope of the investigation is too wide-ranging.
A failure to cooperate with a subpoena can result in charges of contempt of court and obstruction of justice.
It’s unclear why Nunberg so quickly changed his mind.
