WASHINGTON, DC (RNN) - Sam Nunberg, an early staffer on President Donald Trump’s campaign who was later fired for racist Facebook posts, challenged Robert Mueller and announced his plans to refuse to appear before the special counsel’s grand jury on Monday.
“Let him arrest me,” Nunberg told The Washington Post.
Nunberg told the paper he had received a subpoena to appear before the grand jury at the end of the week.
“Mr. Mueller should understand that I am not going in on Friday,” he said. “I’m not spending 80 hours going over my emails with Roger Stone and Steve Bannon and producing them.”
He denied there was any collusion in 2016 between Trump’s campaign and the Russian government, a question which is the focus of Mueller’s investigation.
“Putin is too smart to collude with Donald Trump,” Nunberg told The Post. “Donald Trump won this election on his own. He campaigned his ass off. And there is nobody who hates him more than me.”
Nunberg was fired by the Trump campaign in August 2015, after a number of racist Facebook posts were unearthed by Business Insider.
At her daily press briefing White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said she could not "speak to him or the lack of knowledge that he clearly has."
Watch: Ex-Trump campaign aide Sam Nunberg says he's refusing comply with Mueller subpoena:
"I'm not going to cooperate when they want me to come into a grand jury for them to insinuate that Roger Stone was colluding with Julian Assange. Roger is my mentor. Roger is like family." pic.twitter.com/jUtBCPNiDe
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