Former Trump campaign adviser Sam Nunberg was asked by CNN’s Erin Burnett if he was drinking after a series of unhinged media interviews on Monday.
Nunnberg has given six interviews after he refused to comply with a subpoena issued by special counsel Robert Mueller, requesting he appear before a grand jury.
In the latest interview on ‘Outfront’, Burnett told Nunberg she smelled alcohol on his breath during their exchange.
After he denied this, she asked: ‘No, you haven’t had a drink today?’
He replied: ‘I haven’t had a drink’ and insisted the only thing he’s taken are antidepressants.
It was the latest comment in a wild day for Nunberg, during which he called White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders a ‘fat slob’.
Former Trump campaign adviser Sam Nunberg was asked by CNN’s Erin Burnett if he was drinking after a series of unhinged media interviews on Monday (pictured)
Burnett told Nunberg she smelled alcohol on his breath during their exchange, which he denied claiming he’d on;y take antidepressants
It was the latest om six interviews he gave. During his NY1 interview, he called White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders (pictured) a ‘fat slob’
‘She’s a joke. Okay fine, yeah, she’s unattractive, she’s a fat slob. But that’s irrelevant. The person she works for has a 30 percent approval rating,’ Nunberg told NY1 in an interview.
Nunberg called into cable news three times between 2.30pm. and 4.15pm ET to explain his decision to refuse to appear before a grand jury.
He first appeared on MSNBC speaking with anchor Katy Tur. Within minutes after his first interview he was on air with CNN’s Gloria Bolger, then CNN’s Jake Tapper followed by New York news station NY1.
Nunberg also gave an interview to the Washington Post, in which he stated he was planning to go on Bloomberg TV to rip up the subpoena live on air.
His last interview of the day is with Erin Burnett as of Monday evening.
In his interviews, he suggested that President Donald Trump may be implicated in Mueller’s ongoing probe into Russian election meddling.
In her daily briefing, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Nunberg was incorrect in saying that Trump may have committed wrongdoing during the campaign.
Earlier on Monday, he refused to comply with a subpoena issued by special counsel Robert Mueller, requesting he appear before a grand jury
‘I think he definitely doesn’t know that for sure because he’s incorrect,’ Sanders said. ‘There was no collusion.’
A number of gems were sprinkled throughout his first interview on CNN with Gloria Bolger.
He referred to fellow former Trump aide Carter Page as as ‘moron’.
Earlier on Monday, in interview with MSNBC, Nunberg said he had no interest in spending hours combing through his emails to top campaign officials to assist prosecutors in their Russia probe.
His defiance could lead to contempt of court charges or jail time if he follows through and prosecutors go after him.
‘What they sent me was absolutely ridiculous. They wanted every e-mail I had with Roger Stone and with Steve Bannon. Why should I hand them e-mails from November 1, 2015?’ he said, referencing longtime informal advisor Stone and Trump’s former chief White House strategist.