A former adviser to former President Donald Trump predicts the candidate will be steamrolled at ABC News if he wins the election.
Consultant Sam Nunberg made the claims on a podcast this week, during which he specifically singled out Disney boss Bob Iger. Disney is the parent company of ABC, which oversaw and broadcast the presidential debate earlier this month.
Nunberg, in turn, criticized moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis for their performance, calling it biased.
He called the display “absolutely disgusting” and said professors “should show it in every journalism school” in an attempt to show “what not to do.”
He added that Iger and his company are “screwed” in the event of a Trump victory, and claimed that his former boss could be seeking revenge. The comments come after Trump has repeatedly called the debate a “rigged deal” after the facts were mercilessly fact-checked.
Sam Nunberg, a former adviser to former President Donald Trump, predicts the candidate will be steamrolled at ABC News if he wins the election. Nunberg briefly worked on Trump’s campaign in 2016, before eventually endorsing Ted Cruz.
He made the claims on a podcast this week, during which he specifically singled out Disney boss Bob Iger. Disney is the parent company of ABC, which oversaw this month’s debate.
“I wouldn’t want to be Disney,” Nunberg told Tara Palmeri on her podcast with news organization Puck. “Disney is screwed after that debate… They’re absolutely screwed.”
“And Bob Iger will really have a lot to say if Trump is president,” he continued.
‘Bob Iger is going to have a lot of explaining to do to shareholders about how he let (David) Muir and that other person, Linsey Davis, Muir and Davis’
“His performance was absolutely disgusting.”
Palmeri, playing devil’s advocate, insisted that both journalists had the right to challenge Trump, repeatedly fact-checking his unsubstantiated claims in previous debates.
“They criticized him when he was actually lying,” he said, to which Nunberg responded negatively.
“Why didn’t they call her?” he asked, referring to Harris.
“She’s a liar too.”
Nunberg, in turn, criticized moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis for their performance, calling it biased.
He also said the differential treatment shows “why America hates the media,” before pointing to Trump’s previous attacks on Disney and the company’s feud with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Those cases, he said, show how something is supposedly wrong with the country’s dominant media system, some eight years after he was named as a political adviser to Trump’s 2016 campaign.
That effort, against all odds, proved successful, but it also led to him being subpoenaed by a grand jury to testify and produce documents about allegations that Trump associates used their connections with Russian officials to interfere in the election.
During the subsequent investigation, when Nunberg was asked if he believed the special counsel could have damning evidence against his former boss, he said:
“I think he may have done something during the election,” he added.
“But I don’t know for sure.”
Nunberg, who has not been charged with any crime, added: “Donald Trump won this election single-handedly. He ran an incredible campaign. And there’s no one who hates him more than I do.”
The consultant’s comments come after Trump has repeatedly called the debate a “rigged deal” after mercilessly fact-checking it.
Nunberg, along with his self-proclaimed mentor Roger Stone, helped prepare Trump for their first debate, the now infamous Republican showdown held on August 6, 2015.
He left the campaign days later, after continued tensions with the chicken’s campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski.
In March 2016, he endorsed Senator Ted Cruz for president, saying Trump “has no coherent political ideology.”
After admitting that Trump lost this time, Nunberg concluded the podcast by telling Palmeri why he had failed.
“He lost for two reasons,” he said.
“One, he had a bad night, he just had a bad night. He was tired, whatever it was.”
Last week, Trump said he regretted not attacking the moderators more during the Sept. 15 event and, as a result, vowed not to debate Vice President Harris a second time.