Former political journalist Ryan Lizza blew up his former employer on Monday, indicating that news organizations didn’t meet the mark during an “unprecedented moment of the democratic crisis”, who he believes he thinks the U.S. faces under President Donald Trump’s leadership.
Lizza became tabloid feed last year when his ex-wife, former New York magazine writer Olivia Nuzzi, canceled their engagement with Robert F., who she covered for the magazine. Lizza was initially sent to Politico for Nuzzi accusing him of blackmail and harassment, but she eventually dismissed her claim and Lizza was welcomed by layoffs.
Lizza announced on Monday that he left Politico and began a replacement called Telos.
Lizza wrote in Telos's debut: “The main reason? Their style of political reporting has not reached the unprecedented moment of democratic danger we face.”
The “calling” in the “personal relationship” between New York State journalists and RFK JR calls for a “conflict of interest.”
Ryan Lizza became tabloid feed last year when his ex-wife, former New York magazine writer Olivia Nuzzi, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (tasos katopodis/getty images are now used in kernel images)
“I know it sounds dramatic, but the gap between what actually happened in Washington and what was reported and reported is too big,” he continued. “This new publication, Telos, was a modest attempt to do better.”
Lizza suggested “the wrong people” in Politico and accused his former employer of doing Grand Graudin on Trump.
“When the wrong person is in charge, I see a place where a media group is in trouble before the Trump administration, and how easy it is,” Lizza wrote.
“Politio made a regrettable mistake after Trump attacked politicians selling the subscription to the federal government,” he continued. “To make things go smoothly, they sent our White House reporters as the debut guest of the CPAC, the media's sewers and cheerleaders to relegate our democracy, and some of these activists are openly organizing Trump's unconstitutional third term, in other words, a coup.”
Reporter Olivia Nuzzi and RFK Jr's porn.
Former political journalist Ryan Lizza blew up his former employer on Monday. (Photo by Getty Images by Scott Eisen/Comedy Central
Lizza refers to the political White House director Dasha Burns, who interviewed Special President Richard Grenell at the 2025 CPAC in February.
Burns did not immediately respond to Fox News numbers' request for comment.
Lizza then announced that the Trump administration was “psychically confusing” to many people in Washington.
“A friend of mine who served in Iraq once tried to explain to me how the soldiers psychologically made the impact of war on war when they first participated in full combat. It was so terrible. It was so terrible that unlike any human experience, the initial instinct denies that what happened was actually happening what was actually happening. It was labor encountered in many newsrooms, labor, labor, labor.
New York Magazine puts journalist Olivia Nuzzi on holiday and is suspected of establishing a “personal relationship” with RFK JR.
Olivia Nuzzi deleted the blackmail and harassment claims against Ryan Lizza last year. (Stefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)
Lizza said in a follow-up article on Tuesday that Politico ordered him to delete the original article because it violated his non-propaganda clause. Lizza refused to delete the article and essentially doubled down on the criticism.
“I hope to have the upper hand here, and I hope my friends at Politico will think carefully about whether they really want to censor journalists,” he wrote.
Politico did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Nuzzi insists that she never had a physical relationship with Kennedy, the subject of her previous report, but did communicate “personally”. In her report, she left New York Magazine after she found “no evidence of no accuracy or bias.”
Kennedy's representative has long denied any physical relationship and said he had only seen it once. Lizza strongly denied Nuzzi's harassment and ransomware claims, and she then put it down.
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Joseph A. Wulfsohn of Fox News Digital contributed to the report.
