Sam Nunberg, one of Donald Trump's earliest campaign advisers, was fired in August 2015 over racially charged Facebook posts. | Scott Olson/Getty Images Former Trump campaign adviser Sam Nunberg to meet with Mueller team

Sam Nunberg, one of President Donald Trump’s earliest campaign advisers, is scheduled to meet Thursday with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigators in Washington, according to a person with knowledge of the interview.

Nunberg was an outspoken Trump aide who got fired in August 2015 over racially charged Facebook posts. Trump later sued Nunberg for $10 million for breaching a confidentiality agreement. They settled the case a month later.


Nunberg, who will be accompanied for the Mueller interview by defense attorney Patrick Brackley, got an invitation to meet with the special counsel in mid-January soon after the publication of Michael Wolff's tell-all “Fire and Fury.”

The book quotes the former Trump aide describing everything from his allegiance with ex-strategist Steve Bannon to Trump’s decision to run for president and attempts to explain the Constitution to the rookie political candidate.

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“I got as far as the Fourth Amendment before his finger is pulling down on his lip and his eyes are rolling back in his head,” Wolff wrote Nunberg told him.

While still on the outs with Trump, Nunberg – based in New York – has remained a loyal public supporter of the president. He’s also still a close Bannon ally and last December echoed his complaints about White House attorney Ty Cobb. Nunberg even called for the president to fire Cobb because he’d set up unrealistic expectations about when the Russia investigation will end.

“In my humble opinion and many others believe that Cobb is not very competent and he’s not an asset to the president,” Nunberg told POLITICO.