Former Trump aide says he’ll ignore Mueller’s subpoena

Bloomberg

Longtime Donald Trump associate Sam Nunberg said he doesn’t plan to cooperate with a subpoena from Special Counsel Robert Mueller requesting he appear before a grand jury investigating Russian interference in the 2016 elections.
“They want me in there for grand jury on Friday. I’m not paying the money to go down there,” Nunberg said in an interview with Bloomberg News. “What’s he going to do? He’s so tough — let’s see what they do. I’m not going to spend 40 hours going over emails. I have a life.”
But the Associated Press reported that Nunberg, in a reversal, said he probably would cooperate with Mueller in the end. Nunberg was asked to turn over emails, texts and other communications with 10 campaign associates, including Trump, former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and outgoing White House communications director Hope Hicks starting in November 2015 and running through the present, according to a subpoena dated Feb. 27 that was obtained by Bloomberg News.
The subpoena also seeks his communications with several former Trump aides, including onetime strategist Steve Bannon and former Oval Office operations director Keith Schiller, as well as former campaign advisers Paul Manafort, Rick Gates, Carter Page and Roger Stone. Mueller is also seeking Nunberg’s emails with longtime Trump lawyer Michael Cohen.
Nunberg said he expects one line of questioning before the grand jury to be related to Stone, who Nunberg worked with closely over the years.
“I’m not going to cooperate with Mueller. It’s a fishing expedition,” Nunberg said. “They want me in there for a grand jury for testimony about Roger Stone. He didn’t do anything. What is he going to do? His investigation is BS. Trump did not collude with Putin.
It’s a joke.”
But Nunberg said in a separate interview with MSNBC that he thinks Mueller may have assembled some damaging evidence against Trump. “I think that he may have done something during the election,” Nunberg said. He then added, “I don’t know that for sure.”
If Nunberg defies the subpoena to testify before the grand jury, Mueller could ask the court to immediately issue a warrant for his arrest. Mueller also could seek to charge Nunberg with obstruction of justice.