A Thread for the Mueller Investigation Results and Outcomes (Part 1)

[Snowboarder_Bo]

@jayjay

See, though, that’s a Jewish funerary tradition, so you’re kind of symbolizing death with that. What’s worse, Trump or Death?

Mademoiselle Rimbaud: Your Majesty! I was raised in a convent!
Am I the only one who heard that in Mel Brooks’ King Louis XVI voice?

[Snowboarder_Bo]

Sam Nunberg backs down… like, all the way down.

A former Trump campaign aide spent much of Monday promising to defy a subpoena from special counsel Robert Mueller, even throwing down the challenge to “arrest me,” then backed off his defiance by saying he would probably cooperate in the end.

In an interview with The Associated Press, Sam Nunberg said he was angry over Mueller’s request to have him appear in front of a grand jury and turn over thousands of emails and other communications with other ex-officials, among them his mentor Roger Stone. But he predicted that, in the end, he’d find a way to comply.

“I’m going to end up cooperating with them,” he said.

[TimeWinder]

@raventhief

The 42 Craziest quotes from many CNN interviews by Sam Nunberg…

@Bayard

That’s the funniest thing I’ve read in a long time.

Best part may not have been there before: “CORRECTION: This story originally misidentified the person Numberg referred to as a moron.”

[Randolph]

Slow. Motion.* Fun.

** - now with Real-Time Motion!*

[jayjay]

@Snowboarder_Bo

Mademoiselle Rimbaud: Your Majesty! I was raised in a convent!
Am I the only one who heard that in Mel Brooks’ King Louis XVI voice?

I actually heard it as I was typing it in Eddie Izzard’s “Cake or death?” voice…

[raventhief]

@jayjay

I actually heard it as I was typing it in Eddie Izzard’s “Cake or death?” voice…

Cake or death is a MUCH easier question, though…

[Rick_Kitchen]

The Nunberg interview with Ari Melber of MSNBC

Watch: Ex-Trump aide defying Mueller gets cross-examined on live TV

[Steve_MB]

@Snowboarder_Bo

Sam Nunberg backs down… like, all the way down.

Maybe this message got through to him in time after all…

[kaylasdad99]

@SaneBill

There’s something odd in those pictures. In the first one Sessions is his short self, but on dinner table he’s taller than others. Does he sit on a baby high chair ?

@Walken_After_Midnight

I think they’re sitting down and he’s standing up.

The floor tilts downward away from his edge of the table. Notice the guy to his right is grabbing the tabletop so his chair doesn’t roll away.

[kaylasdad99]

@QuickSilver

Trump’s blood pressure must be through the roof and rising with every minute this guy spends on television, saying there was collusion with the Russians.

His twitterhia is going to be epic.

Ahem.

“twitterrhea.” Neologisms are fine, but let us observe the proper forms.

That is all.

[wonky]

@kaylasdad99

Ahem.

“twitterrhea.” Neologisms are fine, but let us observe the proper forms.

That is all.

I thought it was just coming from my home state, Ahia.

[DesertDog]

@Happy_Lendervedder

Just when I think things couldn’t get any more bizarre.

Once again, hope triumphs over experience.

[Fiveyearlurker]

@Snowboarder_Bo

Sam Nunberg backs down… like, all the way down.

Worst sobering up period ever.

[BobLibDem]

First time I ever remember an interviewer telling a guest that she smelled alcohol on his breath. Just curious- why does he have to go through all those emails? Why not just surrender his passwords and let the Mueller team do the searching?

[Happy_Lendervedder]

@BobLibDem

Just curious- why does he have to go through all those emails? Why not just surrender his passwords and let the Mueller team do the searching?

He came to this conclusion as well during his interview on MSNBC.

[Steve_MB]

@jayjay

See, though, that’s a Jewish funerary tradition, so you’re kind of symbolizing death with that. What’s worse, Trump or Death?

Wait. Don’t answer that.

@Snowboarder_Bo

Mademoiselle Rimbaud: Your Majesty! I was raised in a convent!

Am I the only one who heard that in Mel Brooks’ King Louis XVI voice?

No. No, you were not.

[GrandWino]

@BobLibDem

First time I ever remember an interviewer telling a guest that she smelled alcohol on his breath. Just curious- why does he have to go through all those emails? Why not just surrender his passwords and let the Mueller team do the searching?

It’s not that it’s hard to produce emails. I’m sure he’s been given instructions on exactly the easiest way to search and produce them. He just knows there are emails in there that are damning and he’s trying to avoid hanging his mentor Roger Stone out to dry.

[Dangerosa]

This guy went to law school?!?! I think the worst of the “I didn’t go to law school but let me expound on how I think the law should work” armchair lawyers of the SDMB are more knowledgeable than this guy.

[Son_of_a_Rich]

Nunberg sounds (to me) indistinguishable from Sassy Trump.

[Sinaptics]

@BobLibDem

First time I ever remember an interviewer telling a guest that she smelled alcohol on his breath. Just curious- why does he have to go through all those emails? Why not just surrender his passwords and let the Mueller team do the searching?

It’s just a generally good idea to not give additional ammunition when not necessary. Who knows, maybe there’s an email in there that says “Hey, wasn’t beating the shit out of that prostitute on Tuesday fun?” Not related to the matter at hand, but certainly trouble.

Generally, in litigation, you review the documents to remove privileged (attorney-client) info and non-responsive proprietary info. In this case, it would be to remove anything unrelated that’s potentially incriminatory.