OnPolitics Today: What in the Sam Nunberg? Ex-Trump aide suggests collusion in interviews

It was a doozy of a day for Sam Nunberg.

The ex-Trump campaign aide, in a series of interviews on Monday, suggested Russia special counsel Robert Mueller may have a case against President Trump and that former Trump adviser Carter Page may have colluded with Russians.



On top of that, Nunberg said he himself would defy a Mueller subpoena seeking his emails to a slew of former Trump advisers.

Nunberg, who was fired from Trump's campaign in 2015, called Mueller's request "ridiculous."

"And you know what?" he said on CNN, "Trump may have very well done something during the election with the Russians."

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