Ex-Trump Aide Sam Nunberg Says He Will Refuse Grand Jury Order. Unless He Doesn’t.<br />But they are unfairly targeting Roger Stone.”<br />The subpoena also demands any documents related to Carter Page, a former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser who was secretly surveilled by the<br />Justice Department as part of the Russia investigation, as well as Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman, and his deputy, Rick Gates.<br />Sam Nunberg, a onetime Trump campaign aide who recently met with investigators for the special counsel, set cable news alight on Monday when he declared<br />that he was subpoenaed to go before a grand jury on Friday, but that he was unlikely to appear or to provide documents he was ordered to hand over.<br />They include President Trump; the departing White House communications director, Hope Hicks; the former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski; Stephen K. Bannon, the president’s former<br />chief strategist; Mr. Trump’s longtime bodyguard, Keith Schiller; the former Trump Organization lawyer Michael D. Cohen; and Mr. Stone, a longtime confidant of Mr. Trump’s.<br />Mr. Nunberg was fired by Mr. Trump during the summer of 2015 and thus was gone from the campaign in November.<br />Mr. Nunberg added that the president often sounded “like a moron, but this whole thing is a witch hunt.”<br />Mr. Nunberg said he anticipated his lawyer, Patrick J. Brackley, would fire him for speaking publicly.<br />Part of the subpoena document, which Mr. Nunberg provided to , is dated Feb. 27 and makes no mention of requiring him to appear before the grand jury.
