A journalist named Ryan Lizza is making waves with a series of claims about people associated with the Trump administration. His latest claims are about President Donald J. Trump.
According to Lizza, his ex-girlfriend, former New York Magazine reporter Olivia Nuzzi, implanted a woman into Trump’s circle in order to spy on and secretly record him during the summer of 2024.
The woman implanted was a sketch artist, Isabelle Brourman, who had been commissioned by the magazine, at Nuzzi‘s direction, to complete a portrait of Trump.
“Trump had taken a liking to Izzy when she worked as a sketch artist during his Manhattan trial, and Olivia figured he would enjoy having her around him. She was right,’ Lizza claimed.
The portrait was just a pretense, however. Bourman was allegedly at Mar-a-Lago when she overheard Trump talking about the assassination attempt on his life in Butler, Pennsylvania, and she had been carrying a tape recorder.
Trump was allegedly taped “making a claim about the 2024 assassination attempt on his life that, if true, ‘would shatter our understanding of recent history,’” Lizza claimed on Substack.
Lizza released the claim in part three of an eight-part series about his relationship with Nuzzi. Although he did not reveal what Trump allegedly said, it is speculated that Lizza may do so in part four.
Lizza claimed in part one of his series that his relationship with Nuzzi soured because she was having an affair with Robert F Kennedy Jr, who was a presidential candidate at the time. He claims that Nuzzi was collecting material to “help make [Kennedy Jr] the next president.”
Daily Mail reports:
Lizza, a former Politico reporter, billed his ex as a sort of undercover ‘political operative’ for the then-candidate during a fling that began the year before.
The allegations are only the latest from Lizza, who is in the midst of a sprawling, scathing Substack series after calling off his engagement to Nuzzi in September 2024.
At the time, he claimed an affair between Nuzzi and RFK Jr, 71, was the reason.
After the news broke, Nuzzi was put on leave by New York Magazine. She was fully ousted in October 2024. She is Vanity Fair’s new west coast editor and is on the verge of publishing a book about the recent scandal, called American Canto.
In part one of his series, Lizza claimed Nuzzi had not only cheated on him with Kennedy but with former Republican Representative Mark Sanford.
