US Politics, March 2018: Why do people leave the White House for good?

Thad Cochran resigning from the Senate on April 1, citing health

NUNBERG for WHITE HOUSE COMMUNICATION DIRECTOR. PLEASE!

Straight talker.

Thad Cochran resigning from the Senate on April 1, citing health

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, March 5, 2018 9:55 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Presumably a response in some sense to this - https://www.salon.com/2018/03/01/mississippis-tea-party-brawl-conservative-firebrand-chris-mcdaniel-to-primary-gop-incumbent/

The special election will need to be held before mid-July. Will be interesting to see whether different slates of candidates announce for both seats.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/05/world/americas/panama-hotel-trump.html

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2018/03/06/world/06panama1/merlin_135051165_1a6a73c0-9ece-4dda-8dbc-d916563da81a-master768.jpg

Other possibilities with Nunberg:
- He wants into protective custody sooner rather than later
- He's seeking a deal Mueller doesn't think he needs to give him
- He's stupid and reckless and bent on self-destructive statements
- He's engaged in a ratfucking operation on behalf of his mentor Roger Stone

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/03/what-is-sam-nunberg-doing/554906/

as pointed out by darth, this is oddly satisfying

Trump name chiseled off the Trump International Hotel in Panama after weeks of tensions over control of the property. https://t.co/KQuDrUckyr pic.twitter.com/Ph6xlHgwBr

— ABC News (@ABC) March 5, 2018

This does not strike me as someone looking to get a pardon from Trump.

Meltdown complete. Here's Nunberg calling White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders a "joke" and a "fat slob." Jesus. pic.twitter.com/BhVhGWvgqo

— Andrew Kirell (@AndrewKirell) March 5, 2018

at this point half expecting him to call INfowars while on the toilet

how much Maker's Mark is in Nunberg's belly right now?

how many different networks has he called now? MSNBC, CNN twice, and... is this Spectrum News just reporting on one of his MSNBC/CNN appearances?

trump really surrounds himself with the finest people

imagine being a human adult with an ostensibly functioning prefrontal cortex and being ride or die for all this bullshit.

racism, "lib tears", and tax cuts for the rich is a helluva a drug i guess

it’s new york’s spectrum news (which most people still refer to as ny1). he called them.

there was apparently enough material for him to also appear on the channel’s 9pm show.

i guess he’s on, like physically on. msnbc now

- Can't afford paying lawyers to respond to or fight the subpoena in the fashion that his mentors might demand

This is amazing

how much Maker's Mark is in Nunberg's belly right now?

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, March 5, 2018 10:47 PM (eighteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Five minutes ago, I thought that was a joke. Now I'm not sure.

this guy is so long island

Looking forward to Trump's Nunberg tweets

I think he's on MSNBC right now, airing it out.

Per @swin24 and @lachlan, Sam Nunberg's friends worry he was drinking before his appearances on CNN and MSNBC https://t.co/44kyaJFpts

— Max Tani (@maxwelltani) March 5, 2018

@Josh - Oklahoma teachers' strike fund is live

https://www.gofundme.com/oklahoma-teachers-united

"racially intensitive"

xpost Dude doesn't sound drunk. Well, no more than most. But he is burning bridges left and right.

http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.2981499.1487965659!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_750/bigtown25a-1-web.jpg

Nunberg’s behavior this week is unlikely to improve or repair his standing in Trump-world, which was never that great even before the president essentially exiled him early on in the presidential campaign. According to two sources with direct knowledge, when Nunberg worked for Trump as a political adviser, the future president would regularly berate Nunberg in private. Trump would call him a “jackass” and a “shithead,” among other derogatory terms, and make fun of him, and swear at him loudly.

I'm listening on the radio, is this live or repeat?

he sounded more drunk in the clip from Feb. 28. Maybe he did a bump

xp this is live. the fourth (at least?) interview he's done today

Nunberg has now warned Sarah Huckabee Sanders to "shut her mouth" and threatened to beat up Corey Lewandowski in a dark alley. We live in bonkers times. He's also commented on podcasts.

— Ben White (@morningmoneyben) March 5, 2018

"You know, I know Bob Mueller. I know that whole team, and they're right and they probably have something on Trump, trump did something pretty bad, if I understood them." (rough trans) pic.twitter.com/n655LLxNX6

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) March 5, 2018

He said good things about Preets podcast.

this sounds like a hostage negotiator trying to keep the crazy guy engaged as long as possible to keep him from jumping.

Those close to Sam Nunberg told @swin24 that they fear he was drunk on the air. https://t.co/Y6Zlg9Jyt0

— Scott Bixby (@scottbix) March 5, 2018

https://img.thedailybeast.com/image/upload/c_crop,d_placeholder_euli9k,h_450,w_800,x_0,y_0/dpr_2.0/c_limit,w_740/fl_lossy,q_auto/v1520291508/1800305-swin-lach-nurnberg-meltdown-tease-3_ruqgc6

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QChWtLr0gcY

fwiw, reasonable man Renato thought to subpoena was pretty broad as well.

Has anything like this ever happened before, someone going live on a TV talk show in open defiance of a subpoena and talking smack? I hope this guy went through a metal detector.

i feel like this is a precursor to roger stone getting indicted for something big

“whenever Sam Nunberg’s not on screen, all the other characters should be asking, where’s Sam Nunberg?” pic.twitter.com/fosGrYMEwp

— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) March 5, 2018

my boner pill theory is only getting stronger by the day

My partner reminds me that Nunberg was the guy tasked with explaining the constitution to Trump.

So, yeah.

— FineWereFineEverythingsFineHat (@Popehat) March 5, 2018

- He wants to get public digs in at Trump (and laurels for Stone) before testifying in secret, whatever the outcome

I was going to watch Logan tonight but I think instead I will go through all of the Nunberg footage and marvel.

Might as well watch Logan, at this rate there will be a lot more Sam to experience later.

if that guy was fucking blotto on the air and fucked up that bad I will die laughing. like, tonight. oh my God.

- Nunberg is seeking publicly telegraph the Mueller team's areas of focus to concerned players in the guise of having a meltdown (and attacking some of the people whose interests he's seeking to help?)

Yeah but everyone already knew they were looking at all those areas/people. He hasn't said anything new at all!