Sam Nunberg is out of control

We never heard from him, and now suddenly the whackadoodle is everywhere.  There's a type here that seems to be representative of much of the Trump cabal:  Nunberg, Scaramucci, Page, Don Jr, and Trump himself.   Fully loaded, half-cocked, mouthy losers.

Nunberg, who is talking about his refusal to submit to a Special Counsel subpoena, stopped by Rockefeller Center and appeared on set with MSNBC’s Ari Melber before heading to Columbus Circle to appear with Erin Burnett on CNN. He also did an interview with NY1 in which he called Sarah Huckabee Sanders a “fat slob.”

If you’re looking for news, there’s this: Nunberg told Melber that prosecutors offered him immunity.

If you’re looking for a sense of Nunberg’s state of mind, there’s this exchange with Burnett:

Burnett: I reached out to a Trump ally. This person told me–I just want to be direct because he’s not the only one to say it–you’re drunk or off your meds. At least half a dozen other CNN reporters have received similar messages. Is this a hit job or is something wrong?

Nunberg: I don’t care what they say. I really could care less what the Trump White House has to say about me.

  TV Newser

In a defiant pair of CNN interviews, former Trump campaign aide Sam Nunberg said Monday he refuses to comply with a grand jury subpoena in the Russia investigation.

"Screw that," Nunberg told CNN's Gloria Borger. "Why do I have to go? Why? For what?"

  CNN

I think he'll be finding out shortly.

And in a separate interview with CNN's Jake Tapper, Nunberg said he blamed the investigation's existence on President Donald Trump's firing of James Comey as FBI director -- including an interview where Trump said he was thinking about the Russia investigation when he fired Comey and the fact that he held a meeting with top Russian officials in the Oval Office.

"Donald Trump caused this because he's an idiot," Nunberg said.

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Nunberg said he was asked to appear before the grand jury in Washington on Friday.

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Nunberg added in his interview with Borger that he had already sat down with investigators for close to five and a half hours.

"I'm not going back in," he said.

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"I'm not cooperating. Arrest me," Nunberg said. "You want to arrest me? Arrest me."

That can be arranged. He'll have plenty of time to write his tell-all where he won't be interrupted by normal life.

Nunberg said he was refusing to cooperate with the subpoena because he believes investigators are trying to get him to impugn controversial Trump ally Roger Stone, who Nunberg called his mentor.

"They want me to testify against Roger," Nunberg said. "They want me to say that Roger was going around telling people he was colluding with Julian Assange."

Or maybe they're just happy to have old Sam keep flapping his lips to see what comes out.

According to this article, it seems that subpoena for documents relating to contact with nine Trump people was issued to Nunberg.

Nunberg expressed annoyance that the subpoena included a request for communications between him and former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page, who has become a central figure in stories about the Russia investigation.

Nunberg told Tapper that he thinks Page is a "scumbag," and said he suspects Page of trying to collude with the Russians.

"I believe Carter Page was colluding with the Russians," Nunberg said, adding later, "I think that Carter Page is a weird dude I don't think he should have been involved in that campaign."

One of the finest cases of the pot calling the kettle black.

For many people, Nunberg's decision to go public with his refusal to answer questions from Mueller was the definition of insanity. After all, Mueller can all but compel him to comply with the subpoena. And, no matter what, Nunberg is in real legal jeopardy.

Here's why what Nunberg did on Monday makes total sense: This guy isn't exactly an A-list political (or otherwise) talent.

The reality of Trump's presidential campaign was that the only people willing to work for him at the outset -- and, really, even when he became the Republican nominee -- were people who Trump knew from other walks of life (Hope Hicks, Dan Scavino) or political types who didn't have any other options (Corey Lewandowski, Nunberg).

The reality is that while, occasionally, you can find a diamond in the rough, the truth is that most people who are on the D list belong there.

Which brings me to Nunberg. No one with any political, legal or common sense would advise him to refuse to cooperate with a special counsel investigation and then to brag about it, repeatedly, on cable TV.

Why did he do it? For the same reason Carter Page, another former Trump aide in real legal jeopardy in regard to the 2016 campaign, keeps granting interviews. Because, I think, they like the attention and simply aren't sophisticated enough to understand how much damage they are doing to themselves.

  CNN

Does either one of them even have an attorney?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE:

Well, Nunberg has had a lawyer.

Nunberg vented about having to hire a lawyer for 80 hours to help sort through campaign emails and having to pay “50-grand [in] legal fees.” He also talked on-air about how his lawyer was probably going to ditch him now.

  The Daily Beast

LOL. I wouldn't be a bit surprised.

UPDATE 3/6:

FURTHER UPDATE:

Former Trump campaign aide Sam Nunberg says that he'll probably end up cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller after all.

Nunberg has been giving television interviews in which he says he will defy a subpoena and refuse to appear before a grand jury.

In a reversal, Nunberg tells The Associated Press in an interview Monday night that, in the end, he's likely "going to end up cooperating with them."

  US News

Wise choice, Sam. Wise choice.

FURTHER UPDATE: