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Tue Mar 6, 2018, 11:45 AM Mar 2018

Nunberg worked for American Center for Law and Justice, founded by televangelist Pat Robertson

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/03/06/who-is-sam-nunberg-the-world-wants-to-know/?utm_term=.e9edcc9bc49c

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According to his LinkedIn page, Nunberg graduated from Canada’s McGill University with a bachelor’s degree in history in 2004; he earned his law degree from Long Island’s Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center in 2009. Reporting for BuzzFeed in 2014, McKay Coppins wrote that Nunberg’s “first foray into presidential campaigning came in 2007 when he worked as a volunteer for the [Mitt] Romney campaign while attending law school.”

According to Coppins, Nunberg “was put in charge of organizing turnout for the New York City GOP straw poll. With a little bit of hustle and political voodoo, he helped pull off an upset win for Romney over hometown hero Rudy Giuliani.”

Nunberg then went to work with the American Center for Law and Justice, a Christian conservative legal organization founded by televangelist Pat Robertson and spearheaded by future Trump attorney Jay Sekulow. With that group, Nunberg was front and center during the battle over the Ground Zero mosque as the group’s director of government affairs. In December 2011, he joined the Middle East Forum as director of legal projects, according to a release from the organization.

Nunberg was an early member of Trump’s political team when the mogul’s potential candidacy was seen mostly as a stunt. In 2014, as Trump continued a long-running flirtation with higher office, Nunberg was at his side. BuzzFeed reported that Nunberg was working for operative Roger Stone at the time.
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