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When he first testified to Mueller it wasn’t a witch hunt and said he had the impression Mueller had something on Herr Trump. Last Monday it was a witch hunt and he wasn’t going to help them bring down his mentor Roger Stone.
Then he reversed himself again-Nunberg did provide the communications sought, testified again for another 5 and a half hours and now says it really isn’t a witch hunt.
“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.”
UPDATE: Nunberg’s view has evolved quite a bit. In February, 2019 a month before Mueller handed it in he said he thinks it would serve as a roadmap to impeachment.
Sad thing is it does but Pelosi thinks holding Trump accountable is too divisive.
Hannity approves! 🤨 https://t.co/kWqT46IvC7
— Tom Watson (@tomwatson) June 11, 2019
End of UPDATE
Previously he’d stated that he does think Mueller has ‘something’ on Trump but that he thought it was more about financial crimes, etc.
But Nunberg does believe his idol Roger Stone is in some trouble.
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.
“I’m very worried about him,” Nunberg said. “He’s certainly at least the subject of this investigation, in the very least he’s a subject.”
UPDATE 2.0: That would prove prophetic-Stone was indicted for perjury and his hearing begins in November, 2019.
As for last Monday’s meltdown? He now says it was all a performance.
“They said it was a media meltdown. I felt I melted down the media,” Nunberg said in an interview with ABC News on Friday. “I felt it was a good game… And if you want to know the truth it’s kind of therapeutic too.”
He did admit that the performance was partially due to the pressure of testifying in the special counsel’s probe.
“I wanted to show what this independent counsel, this independent investigation does to people like me,” Nunberg said. “I’m collateral damage in this independent special investigation.”
In any case no one would ever mistake him for being dogmatic about consistency. Wait along long enough and he will take every possible position under the sun.
He was insulted when it was suggested he was drunk last Monday but the next day he suggested maybe he will go to an alcohol treatment center. Even here he both claims his wild performance last week was wholly theatrical but then suggested that actually it was partly due to the fact that this is all getting to him.
As for what he testified about yesterday he won’t say:
It’s unclear what exactly Nunberg testified about before the grand jury. He declined to publicly elaborate on what prosecutors wanted to know, saying he “got into enough trouble this week” already.
“Nunberg said his testimony focused on the campaign aides surrounding the president who were mentioned in the subpoena, like White House Communications Director Hope Hicks, former White House aide Steve Bannon, former campaign aides Corey Lewandowski and Carter Page, Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen, and the president’s longtime bodyguard Keith Schiller.”
He said there were also questions about Trump’s business and his political positions on Russia.”
But whatever he was asked about, he did say he’s worried that Roger Stone is in trouble so there’s a hint. Mueller wanted Nunberg’s email chains with nine Trump associates.
So you can infer that all of these Trump associates are in some level of jeopardy.