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Alexandra Petri: Of course Sam Nunberg can’t keep his mouth shut. He worked for Trump.

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Video: Former Trump aide Sam Nunberg told reporters on March 5 that he’ll refuse to comply with a subpoena in the Russia investigation. Columnist Ruth Marcus has some advice for him: Don’t be stupid. (Gillian Brockell/The Washington Post)

To badly misquote Oscar Wilde, when one former staffer telephones reporters and cable news stations in order to go on a prolonged, alarming, defiant rant, it seems like a misfortune. But when it happens multiple times, it starts to look like carelessness.

It starts to look like President’s Trump’s idea of assembling a great team of “the best people” was, specifically, “the best people at going on cable news in moments of crisis, sticking their feet in their mouths, choking on those feet, suggesting that the feet definitely did something with the Russians during the campaign, and making everyone even more alarmed than they were previously.