An ex-advisor to former President Donald Trump is predicting the candidate will go scorched-earth on ABC News if he wins the election.
Consultant Sam Nunberg made the claims on a podcast this week, during which he singled out Disney boss Bob Iger specifically. Disney is the parent company of ABC, which oversaw and aired the presidential debate earlier this month.
Nunberg, in turn, called out moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis for their performance, framing it as biased.
He labeled their display ‘absolutely disgusting’ – saying lecturers ‘should show it in every journalism school’ in an attempt to show ‘what not to do’.
He added how Iger and his company are ‘f**ked’ in the event of a Trump win, claiming his old boss could be out for revenge. The comments come as Trump has repeatedly billed the debate as a ‘rigged deal’ – after being mercilessly fact-checked.
Sam Nunberg, a onetime advisor to former President Donald Trump, is predicting the candidate will go scorched-earth on ABC News if he wins the election. Nunberg briefly served on Trump’s 2016 campaign, before ultimately endorsing Ted Cruz
made the claims on a podcast this week, during which he singled out Disney boss Bob Iger specifically. Disney is the parent company of ABC, which oversaw this month’s debate
‘I would not want to be Disney,’ Nunberg told Tara Palmeri on her podcast with the news organization Puck. ‘Disney is f**ked after that debate… They’re absolutely f**ked.
‘And Bob Iger really is going to have a lot to say if Trump is president,’ he continued,
‘Bob Iger is going to have a lot to explain to the shareholders how he let [David] Muir and that other person – Linsey Davis – Muir and Davis’
‘[Their performance] was absolutely disgusting.’
Palmeri, playing devil’s advocate, went on to insist how the pair of journalists were in the right to challenge Trump, repeatedly fact-checking him following unfounded assertions in previous debates.
‘They called him out when he was actually lying,’ she said – to which Nunberg replied negatively.
‘Why did they not call her out?’ he asked, referring to Harris.
‘She’s a liar too.’
Nunberg, in turn, called out moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis for their performance, framing it as biased.
He also claim the differing treatment showed ‘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 instances, he said, show how something is allegedly amiss with the nation’s mainstream media system – some eight years after he was pegged to be a political advisor to Trump’s 2016 campaign.
That effort, against all odds, proved successful, but also saw him subpoenaed by a grand jury for testimony and documents over allegations Trump associates used their connections with Russian officials to interfere with the election.
During the subsequent investigation, Nunberg, when asked whether he believed that the special counsel may have damning evidence against his old boss, said ‘
‘I think that he may have done something during the election,’ he added.
‘But I don’t know for sure.’
Nunberg, who was not charged with any crime, went on to add: ‘Donald Trump won this election on his own. He campaigned his ass off. And there is nobody who hates him more than me.’
The consultant’s comments come as Trump has repeatedly billed the debate as a ‘rigged deal’ – after being mercilessly fact-checked.
Nunberg, along with his self-described mentor Roger Stone, helped prepare Trump for his first debate, the now infamous Republican faceoff held on August 6, 2015.
He went on to leave the campaign days later, after continued tensions with hen-campaign manager Corey Lewandowski.
He would go on to endorse Senator Ted Cruz for president in March 2016, saying Trump “does not have a coherent political ideology.”
Conceding Trump lost this time around, Nunberg concluded the podcast by telling Palmeri why he had failed.
‘He lost because for two reasons,’ he said.
‘One, he had an off night, he just had an off night. He was tired, whatever it was.’
Trump last week said he regretted not attacking the moderators more during the September 15 event, and has vowed not to debate Vice President Harris a second time as a result.