Former Trump aide speaks to Mueller, believes Russia probe is 'not a witch hunt'

[DonViejo]

Source: ABC News



By LUCIEN BRUGGEMAN and TARA PALMERI
Mar 10, 2018, 9:56 AM ET

Five and a half hours after testifying before a grand jury in the Russia probe, a former political adviser to Donald Trump told ABC News exclusively that he believes the investigation is “warranted.”

“No, I don't think it's a witch hunt,” Sam Nunberg told ABC News. “It's warranted because there's a lot there and that's the sad truth.”

He added, “I don't believe it leads to the president.”

Instead, Nunberg said he believes that many in his inner circle may face legal trouble, including his own mentor and former Trump campaign aide, Roger Stone.

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[cstanleytech]

1. The other possibility is that it does lead to Trump and this guy is saying this because Trump cannot

issue any pardons if he is removed from office.

[PunksMom]

5. Good point

Although, would he even pardon him, after he said, “it’s not a witch hunt”? That probably ticked tRump right off.

[Achilleaze]

2. republican betrayal of America is filthy foul

and their worship of Dirty Donnie* is sick.

* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

[groundloop]

3. aka Corporal Bone Spurs

[DonViejo]

9. That's Cadet Bone-spurs, don't honor him with an earned rank!!

[UpInArms]

4. To testify five more times?

Probably lots of fire in that smoke

[marble falls]

6. Sounds like whistling past the graveyard to me. He'd better retain his lawyer a bit longer.

[Leghorn21]

7. Dude,

“Look I can't talk. I can't. I'm just not going to talk about it...”

Then SHUT THE HELL UP, DUMBASS

[lark]

8. More drumpf mandated lies.

Sorry this directly contradicts what he's been saying all week, that drumpf definitely knew about the Trump Tower meeting in advance and it wouldn't have happened without his blessings.

[BobTheSubgenius]

10. With this loon, you really can't tell.

He might believe that what he knows about 45's level of involvement isn't a big deal. Or that a *President is more bullet-resistant than mere mortals.

[meadowlander]

13. He's just blowing smoke everywhere.

The effect is to hide the real fire and to poison the source of any information on real wrong doing because it's just "that nutjob Nunberg making wild accusations".

For example, he says that Trump definitely knew about the "adoption" meeting but then says he wasn't there and doesn't know that. Also that it's crazy that the Russians interfered and that there is some kind of conspiracy.

He says Trump did something wrong, but not that he colluded with the Russians (to divert the case towards Trump's financial crimes and away from Roger Stone's ratfuckery and treason?)

He says Carter Page is a scumbag but also that he never talks to him.

[uppityperson]

11. Is this the same person who went off the rails last wk giving multiple interviews saying he wouldn't

comply and testify?

[DonViejo]

12. Yes, it is the one and the same

[Squinch]

14. Was it three days ago that he said that Stone did nothing wrong? Today he says

Stone did something wrong. And he says that Trump did nothing wrong. I'd say that pretty much means that he knows what Trump did wrong.

He's running out of Daddies.

[Nitram]

15. Nunberg can't possibly believe Trump is innocent. Sounds to me like he's scared of Trump.

[Cha]

21. Maybe he wants to give

trump a false sense of hope? I dunno.. just came to mind.

[Nitram]

23. I like that thought!

[LiberalLovinLug]

16. I have to brace myself for the possibiltiy that Trump will squeeze through all this

What if Putin, and also people like Stone and Manafort and others on this side of the pond, made sure that the Dotard never new what the fuck was going on precisely for the reason that if this ever blew up, in the end, they'd still have their Don at the helm once the dust settled?

What if it was just equally greedy cohorts that latched onto him like remoras on a shark, knowing if they could just coax the big dumb fish over the line, they'd be able to have access to even greater wealth?

I mean the guy is about the most stupid and self-centered corruptible dude in history. All you do is complement him, tell him he's right and everybody else is wrong. Laugh at his jokes, no matter how sexist or racist they are. And maybe help to arrange a permit for a hotel in one of the major cities in Russia. What if those around him manipulated him and the situation, worked with Putin to make Trump THINK he was just getting a building or a pageant, or a huge loan because he's such a swell guy? Only someone like Trump would actually believe that.


I wonder what this place will be like if, after all this time, Trump comes out of all this battered but not broken. And then he uses that battering as a sympathy card for the midterms if it is resolved before that, but also as a means to sweep back in in 2020?

[Skittles]

18. so why does Trump publicly kiss Putin ass and refuse to enact sanctions

OF COURSE HE KNOWS

[Skittles]

17. Trump publicly kisses Putin ass, refuses to enact sanctions

IT LEADS TO HIM

[summer_in_TX]

19. Plus Trump conspired on the plane to give out a false story

about the Trump Tower meeting. He had his own hands all over that one.

The other "tells" are how hard he has been working to insist that there was no collusion and his and his administration's efforts to delay, obfuscate, and prevent his folks from testifying to the House Intel Committee. Not to mention getting Nunes to interfere with the House's independent investigation.

If he's innocent, I'll eat my favorite hat.

[Cha]

20. Mueller doesn't do "witch hunts" but

good on Nunberg to say so.

We'll see if it leads straight to trumputin's slimey door, won't we, Sam?

[nolabels]

22. If the rancid cheeto knew what was good for him he would of already resigned

Having the luck to be able to sit on a jury in a criminal case gives insight to how a government prosecutor really operates. To think there are multiple layers of these people with a lot of other people helping the case along would make only a fool not pause.

So what is the GOP going to do now? Fire the F.B.I. or something?