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

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!

Elsewhere:

Spent a nice afternoon with #Ivanka & #JaredKushner two accomplished young people who only want the best for @realDonaldTrump & the country, but they work in a nest of snitches, vipers & rats AKA the #WestWing. My story exclusively on @seanhannity live at 9pm et pic.twitter.com/n4Hs9fOxnC

— Geraldo Rivera (@GeraldoRivera) March 5, 2018

"Snitches, vipers and rats, oh my!"

i agree with maura the guy looks like he was on speed or something

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

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, March 6, 2018 12:01 AM (fourteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I don't think that's correct. There has certainly been speculation about the potential liability of everyone mentioned in the subpoena, but he's being more specific on a variety of fronts, particularly as regards intent to prosecute Stone for perjury.

haven't seen the footage yet but I doubt nunberg is playing 4d chess here

Of course I hate all these people with the fury of a thousand suns. But there is something a bit... refreshing about the Moochian impulse to just say what the fuck, pound some shots, go on teevee, and say whatever comes to mind. At the very least, it's no more toxic than the shit these guys say on purpose while sober.

"you're drunk or off your meds"

i cant be the only one who feels nunberg is going to kill himself any day now

There has certainly been speculation about the potential liability of everyone mentioned in the subpoena, but he's being more specific on a variety of fronts, particularly as regards intent to prosecute Stone for perjury.

Perhaps I'm glib here but I've kinda operated on the basis that a lot of people questioned would be trying to lie anyway. (As reinforced by Gates trying to do that *when he was negotiating with the team* -- and then got busted for that, and pled guilty.)

xp: By "any day now" do you mean "on one of these shows" because that's the vibe I got from his Erin Burnett appearance

ugh let's hope not

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Just caught the end of Erin Burnett’s interview with Nunberg where she ended by gently telling him she could smell alcohol on him and asking if he was drunk or high. All totally surreal. He said something like, “All I did was work loyally. I didn’t steal from the campaign. I didn’t have an affair with a married man.” (Making it clear other people were doing those things.)

that burnett interview is intense.

my god none of these MSNBC reporters sleep, do they? Leaving for work this morning I swear I saw Katy Tur on Morning Joe.

i cant be the only one who feels nunberg is going to kill himself any day now

― barreras, Tuesday, March 6, 2018 12:50 AM (sixteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, there was an implication of something that could happen by the end of the week that could be read as either that or some sort of public disclosure even more off the wall or noisemaking than what's come already.

and yes, very surreal.

i may be alone here, but...i think it's fair for CNN to note that he is drunk and that several other sources have stated he's been drunk, because it at least provides a partial explanation for his weird ass behavior. but what's with the moralizing over it? part of that interview is like watching a televised intervention. yes, he's drunk! entire decades of public affairs played out in raging drunkness, who cares!

One also wonders what sorts of personal revelations as to Nunberg himself (and the affair talk may be relevant here) or more powerful figures may be contained in those emails.

Oh! CNN’s @ErinBurnett just told former Truno aide Sam Nunberg she smelled alcohol on his breath. pic.twitter.com/Qm8n1ogeW0

— John Aravosis (@aravosis) March 6, 2018

being drunk may provide an explanation but it won't give any legal cover