Defense Attorneys Have Some Legal Advice for Sam Nunberg: 'Pack Your Toothbrush-Prepare for Jail'

[DonViejo]

The former Trump campaign aide’s decision to potentially ignore a subpoena has put him in legal jeopardy. America’s top criminal defense attorneys have some advice: first, shut up

SCOTT BIXBY
03.05.18 9:38 PM ET

Sam Nunberg, stop your mouth from moving.

That’s the legal consensus among some of the country’s top criminal defense attorneys when asked how they would counsel the onetime Trump campaign adviser, whose Triangle Shirtwaist-scale flameout on Monday led confidants—and one anchor—to worry if he was drunk-dialing cable news hosts.

“I would tell him that he’s had his fun, now put on your big-boy pants, shut up and hire a lawyer,” said Charles Clayman, founding partner and chair of Clayman & Rosenberg LLP. Clayman is a veteran New York City criminal defense attorney who has represented defendants in federal and state investigations for more than three decades—and sees in Nunberg’s refusal to comply with a subpoena from Special Counsel Robert Mueller a recipe for legal disaster.

“Hell hath no fury like a prosecutor scorned,” Clayman continued.

Nunberg ignited a cable news conflagration when he told the Washington Post that he would not cooperate with a request by Mueller to appear before the federal grand jury investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. By phone and in person, Nunberg told reporters that former Trump campaign advisor Carter Page was “a moron” and a “weird guy” who was “colluding with the Russians” during the campaign, that President Donald Trump “may have very well done something during the election with the Russians,” and called White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders a “fat slob.”

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[quartz007]

1. Jail is cheaper than hiring lawyers?

May be he is broke!

[mn9driver]

2. If he wanted to do it on the cheap, he should have

Kept his mouth closed and shown up on time with the requested material.

[treestar]

3. You can't just disobey a subpoena because you don't like it

It is "unfair" or inconvenient.

A lot of people feel this way - in minor cases, I have subpoenaed people who ignored it. They just didn't want to come and thought that was all it takes.

[Grammy23]

4. Something about yesterdays public meltdown does not smell right.

First, he seemed to come out of nowhere and do a 180 on the way he acted a few weeks ago. At that time he was almost in awe of Mueller and his team. He had nary a bad thing to say about them. Yesterday he was petulant and defensive like a spoiled child who was told to clean his room. He whined and repeated himself over and over, claiming the subpoena was “unfair”. What gown man resorts to kindergarten tactics of claiming unfairness? (Aside from tRump.)

Second, somewhere in yesterday’s performance, it was revealed that Nunberg attended law school. So the things he was saying and the way he did it had to be something he knew was a big problem for him. A huge No No. You simply cannot thumb your nose at the US. Justice system without penalty. He had to know that before he ever made the first call in rant, before he ever entered the studio for an on camera freakout.

Finally, reflecting back on what he said and how he did it, it was obvious he was either following instructions or sending a message to someone. He repeated the same phrases over and over, pledging his loyalty to Roger Stone and getting a zinger in on tRump at the same time. He threw several other people under the bus in the process. Those who witnessed the interviews suspected a mental break, a drunken rant or complete confusion over his behavior. Some seemed genuinely worried for the guy.

No one suggested that it was a strategy or planned performance. Or at least not at first. As the afternoon wore on into evening the possibility that it was not just a psychic break or drunken rant began to creep into the conversations. Some smelled a rat.

So I don’t know what to call or think of yesterday’s epic meltdown by Nunberg, but something tells me there was more to that story that we don’t know yet. A lot more. Like this whole debacle with tRump, there seems to be much more to learn before we know the whole story. In the meantime, it sure gives everyone something else to chew on besides tRump. Which, come to think of it, may be a partial explanation for Nunberg’s behavior. Hmmm....