Trump campaign adviser fired over Facebook posts

There may be some comments that go too far even for Donald Trump’s campaign.

Sam Nunberg, an adviser to the campaign was fired over the weekend after an article by Business Insider showed he reportedly posted racially charged Facebook comments. Nunberg told Business Insider he was shocked by the posts and didn’t remember writing them.


In one Aug. 24, 2007, post, he reportedly wrote “meeting Rev. Sharpton, no joke — he will tell him that his daughter is N—-!”

“Effective immediately, low-level part-time consultant Sam Nunberg is no longer associated with the Donald J. Trump for President campaign,” campaign manager Corey Lewandowski said.

Despite the campaign’s portrayal of Nunberg as a low-level staffer, he was one of eight paid advisers from April through the beginning of the month, according to Business Insider.

“Sam Nunberg is just a short-term consultant with the campaign along with many others. If he did make these statements he will be terminated immediately,” a spokesperson for the Trump campaign told Business Insider. “Mr. Trump would never condone such statements from anybody in his campaign … even if that person had a low-level campaign position.”

On Monday, Rev. Al Sharpton accepted Nunberg’s apology, which he sent in the form of a letter.

“Trump did the right thing” by firing Nunberg, Sharpton said in The New York Times “and the guy did the right thing to admit he was wrong and apologize.”

According to the Times, Nunberg called the posts “disgusting” and “inexcusable” in his apology.

This isn’t the first time Nunberg has been fired from the Trump organization.

In early 2014, his position was terminated after a critical BuzzFeed profile. He called the article a “pejorative hit piece,” “rife [with] inaccuracies” and a “mean-spirited tone.” He was rehired later that year.

Nunberg’s former boss has been known to stir the pot with insensitive comments as well. In his presidential announcement speech the real-estate mogul called undocumented immigrants “criminals” and “rapists.” A later speech drew fire after he said Sen. John McCain is not a hero for his time in a Vietnamese POW camp.

An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated how Donald Trump characterized undocumented immigrants. This story has been updated.