CNNs Erin Burnett To Sam Nunberg: I Smell Alcohol On Your Breath

[FrodosNewPet]

Source: Huffington Post

By Rebecca Shapiro | 03/05/2018 09:15 pm ET

President Donald Trump’s former campaign aide Sam Nunberg spent Monday afternoon sitting for a series of interviews on cable news shows, bombastically stating that he would not comply with a subpoena he received to appear before a federal grand jury regarding Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

Before wrapping his appearance on Erin Burnett’s show, the CNN host said she could smell alcohol on his breath and asked Nunberg if he had been drinking.

“We talked earlier about what people in the White House were saying about you ― talking about whether you were drinking or on drugs or whatever had happened today,” she said. “Talking to you, I have smelled alcohol on your breath.”

Nunberg said he had not had a drink and had only taken his medication ― antidepressants ― earlier Monday.

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Former Trump aide Sam Nunberg has not only went off the rails, he is driving that train through the funhouse while playing Yakkity Sax on a kazoo!

[RandySF]

1. Reminds me a newspaper reporter

Who comented on the alcohol stench at Trump campaign rallies during the 2016 campaign.

[lunasun]

2. dude is a mess

“We talked earlier about what people in the White House were saying about you ― talking about whether you were drinking
or on drugs
or whatever had happened today,” she said. “Talking to you, I have smelled alcohol on your breath.”

Nunberg said he had not had a drink and had only taken his medication ― antidepressants ― earlier Monday.

She smelled it.
I say he is telling a lie about that too

[Docreed2003]

3. I mean...he does seem intoxicated, just saying.

[FrodosNewPet]

4. Who is former Trump adviser Sam Nunberg?

[C Moon]

5. Goin' Down

[The Polack MSgt]

17. I'd say so. It seems like he's tore down

almost level to th' ground.

[flibbitygiblets]

6. That's going to be a nasty hangover tomorrow...complete with video

[Grassy Knoll]

8. "I Said Whaat"?

[Rhiannon12866]

7. No joke, I'm in AA and that was my take on it

I saw the interview with Ari Melber.

[BigmanPigman]

9. This quote is wrong and has been wrong all day.

She said, "I HAVE smelled alcohol on your breath". That is past tense. I heard it live today and it has been re-run and no one is catching the PAST TENSE! As I Melber said to Lawrence that he did not smell it on Sam's breath 1/2 hour earlier on his own show. I am not defending the guy's behavior or what he said but he could be scared shitless and he is under intense pressure and that could account for it. Check it out for yourself (:19).

[Honeycombe8]

10. That does change things. Inappropriate for Burnett to say that, IMO.

Refer to smelling alcohol on his breath once in the past. Many people have a drink with lunch or dinner. I don't, but a lot of people do, and there's nothing wrong with that.

[phleshdef]

13. Its painfully obvious that she meant during that interview.

[lagomorph777]

18. You're ignoring that she also said "We've been sitting very close."

Very plainly she wasn't referring to some previous encounter.

Are you a friend of Nunberg?

[BigmanPigman]

27. Nope.

[Honeycombe8]

11. I view his behavior as melt-down mode.

He's cracking under the pressure. It must be intense, and he surely has large legal bills. When he saw the volume of emails, he probably had a cow. He said he hadn't reviewed them for the subpoena, then said he looked at them for 2 hours. I'm guessing he was overwhelmed by the sheer volume and realized he can't review all those emails.

I'd be cracking, too.

This gives an inkling of what it must be like for the others, like Gates & Manafort & Flynn & Kushner. But only Nunberg is showing it.

[Dopers_Greed]

12. JFC...this guy is absolutely nuts

The insanity never stops with the Orange Menace

[Historic NY]

14. I haven't had 'a' drink....

but I've had multiple drinks.

[C Moon]

15. When have you ever heard a tv interviewer say, 'I smell alcohol on your breath.' ?

I smell a rat.
A DU post elsewhere got me to thinking about this: they are setting up for a "oh I was so mixed up on drugs and alcohol, I didn't know what I was doing."
Could this be the Trump/Putin fall guy?

[Nitram]

20. Moon, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. When in doubt, stick to Occam's Razor.

[C Moon]

22. Never heard of Occam's Razor before...I'm guessing it kind of means...if it looks like a duck...

Just being paranoid. It's still unbelievable that freak got into the WH.

[Nitram]

23. No, Occam's Razor is the idea that the simplest explanation that is consistent with the situation

being described is the best one. In other words, Nunberg had been drinking.

Here's a better definition from Wikipedia:

Occam's razor (also Ockham's razor or Ocham's razor; Latin: lex parsimoniae "law of parsimony&quot is the problem-solving principle that, when presented with competing hypothetical answers to a problem, one should select the one that makes the fewest assumptions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor

[FakeNoose]

24. Occam's Razor tells me this: Sam Nunberg was a ploy to get our attention

He went on 4 or 5 interview shows throughout the day yesterday, and said almost exactly the same thing on every show. Why did he do that? What could he possibly have been thinking? That was not a spur of the moment blurt-out, it was pre-planned and scripted.

Nunberg said all those things on purpose. Yep he fell on his sword, for lack of a better term. I don't know why he did it, but somebody gave him a good enough reason. It was deflection from the beginning, and that's all we watched yesterday. What were they trying to keep us from noticing? Maybe they didn't want us to talk about Mueller's new indictments?

I don't know, but I believe we'll find out soon enough.

[Nitram]

25. Once again, the simplest explanation is that the man is under more stress than he can handle,

on the verge of a breakdown, and he got drunk and hit the interview circuit. He is on anti-depressants, so you know he was already messed up. Nothing sinister, nothing pre-planned - if it had been he wouldn't have contradicted himself so many times. A spectacle like this does the Trump administration not a single bit of good. Just more evidence that their ship is severely damaged below the waterline and sinking fast. The rats are scurrying hither and thither, but have no place to go. You don't fall on your sword by suggesting that your boss is probably guilty of crimes.

[FakeNoose]

26. That would explain why he did it once

It doesn't explain why he did the same thing 5 times over the course of 8 or 9 hours.
This was a planned event. Somebody gave him a script to follow.

[CottonBear]

16. Sam Nunberg is a cast member on a real life SNL reality show!

[lagomorph777]

19. Awesome pic!

[Rollo]

21. Anybody else reminded of Jon Lovitz' character on SNL?