Name: Olivia Nuzzi Answers SHOCKING Trump Question
Uploaded: 2025-12-22T14:00:40.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Olivia Nuzzi Answers SHOCKING Trump Question' from TAFS Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-12-22. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Olivia Nuzzi Answers SHOCKING Trump Question' from TAFS Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-12-22. Transcript available.

I'm taking you in good faith.
I mean, from what I read, here's the thing that I'm going to ask you directly
about because
I don't understand why no one even cares, right?
The most absurd allegation that's levied is that there was a recording that was
surreptitiously
made by an illustrator in New York Magazine.
It included the president talking about details related to the Butler,
Pennsylvania assassination
attempt that have been hidden from public knowledge and that you received a
phone call from Secretary
Kennedy while he was in Mexico on vacation and that you deleted that recording.
Is that true?
That's not true.
It's not true.
No.
First of all, with all this crap coming out, no one's talking about that even.
Even the people that are taking his words as gospel, I'm like, listen, I'm
talking to you
right now, I'm taking you in good faith, but no one even cares about that one
part, which
is like, what, it was an assassination attempt.
Yeah.
Um, so where, so is this, is this individual like, just completely just free
silent on this
shit?
No, I mean, some of the stuff it's like rooted in some fact, right, but then it's
like contorted
in such a way that it like, it's unrecognizable.
And that's what makes it hard to respond to, right, because it's, I can't say
every single
thing that this person said is false.
Yeah.
It's like, it's like, you know, when you get down to it, there's some truth
there, but
it's not, it's like, there's just reporters about-
But why wouldn't you pursue defamation claims?
I mean, this is like-
I don't want to, because it's like, I don't want to be involved with this
person.
No, if indeed this is not true, saying that you fucking like covered up
something related
to an assassination attempt is like, is egregious-
Yeah.
I agree.
And it, it's career-ending, beyond your failure to disclose your relationship
with-
Sure.
I mean, you-
But the, but the things that this person has written are not publishable by the
standards
of any actual news organization, right, it just would not meet the standard,
and so-
But that is definitely, he's defaming you in public.
Definitely, yeah.
Even if it's on the internet, right?
But from my point of view, it's like, okay, best case scenario, what, I spend
several years
and probably like, seven figures to get a sub-stack retracted and some kind of
forced apology.
I, that person-
To clear your name.
But I was with that person for 12 years.
Like, I don't want to spend any more of my time in an argument.
So you make a fucking Jewish guy do it for you in the court.
I mean, it's your name, and you have, I mean, if indeed this is like, if indeed
you weren't
killing stories on behalf of a politician that you were covering, and if indeed,
like, you
didn't cut, like, delete evidence related to a presidential assassination
attempt,
you, you gotta clear your name.
I mean, I, I would see no other, no other course of action.
But I don't see like, my point of view is like, I don't feel like the onus
should be on me
to answer for this person's allegations.
You know, the book is not about this person.
And-
I'm not even talking about the book.
I'm talking about the way people are talking about you right now.
But this is about the book.
But this is about the book.
The whole thing is designed to write over this book that I wrote.
And I don't want to attack that person.
Like, I feel sorry for them.
And like, it freaks me out.
And I think it's like, disturbing.
And I hope that they move on.
I think the problem was that it was, you know, a situation where, like, I was
really, really
young when I got involved with this person.
And I think that they became accustomed to like, violating my privacy, my space,
et cetera.
And I left, you know.
And like, I didn't leave in a great way, obviously, right.
Yeah.
Like, I don't view this person as credible.
I think this is obviously this like, vengeance campaign, right, designed to
inflict harm on
me.
And-
It's just, it's related to a fucking-
The president, someone shooting him.
But there are so many things.
That's like, it's like James Bond style allegations.
This is like an eight- what is it, eight-part series?
It's five.
Is it five?
And you're acting like you don't know, but you read all of them.
No, I haven't read any of them.
You're also a better writer than him, too.
He's probably-
Thank you, but I haven't read any of them.
You know you're a better writer the whole time?
Just don't date another journalist.
Very different.
A very different type of writing.
That's part of like, what was so weird.
Like-
You're being nice to him though?
I've always been being nice about him.
Like, I don't, I'm not, I've never been in, I'm not in a feud.
You know, this person is trying very hard and succeeding, frankly, in assassinating
my character and like that's a choice and I made a different choice.
I have to, like, part of getting through this period of like being publicly shamed
over
the last 16 months, right?
Yeah.
I had like rules for myself of how I would, how I would deal with things and
the first
rule was just that I would never use anyone else as a human shield.
You know, I would never try to like wriggle out of culpability by harming
anyone else.
I would, like, I had to remember anything that was fake is probably ephemeral,
right?
Yeah.
That time, if I sort of didn't waste the opportunity of this crisis in my life,
this fuck up, the
opportunity to like proceed better and become better then anything fake wouldn't
stick around,
right?
Like, that's my belief about it.
Yeah.
And so I wasn't like terribly concerned with that stuff.
Like, I know it's not true and like, you know, I have my lawyer respond when
appropriate.
But like.
Oh, so you got one.
Yeah.
I have a lawyer.
Thank God you have one.
That's all I'm asking you.
If you have a guy.
Of course I have a lawyer.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He's amazing.
Do you have a support system around you?
Do you have like a, do you have good friends that like are there for you and
stuff?
Yeah.
But also like, I'm, this is not at risk of shattering me.
Yeah.
You know, it's just not, I think it's unfortunate, but I think it's very
interesting.
But the response to this also is in the book, right?
Like I write about what I did wrong in my book.
I write in American Canto about the truth of that affair, right?
I write of things that don't make me look good.
I didn't think anything would redeem me and I wasn't trying to do that.
You said you lied.
But I assumed like it was, it was kind of vague.
You said, you said I committed ethics violation.
And you also said, and I lied for him, right?
Yeah.
But you didn't lie for him.
But it was, yeah.
Right.
Like the spin that.
It was with Lizzo.
Hmm?
It was with your, uh, uh.
But I, you know, the spin, the, the, the.
Um, he and I agreed on.
Yeah.
It was like that it was a flirtation, nothing more.
Right.
And that was, you know, what it's been the only thing that I've been surprised
by.
Cause I knew like when I poked my head up from being in this sort of isolation.
Yeah.
That I, um, might be met by like some madman charging at me with an ax.
Right.
Like I figured that people weren't going to be normal in general about me
writing a book.
Um, but I didn't know that other people would participate in that harassment.
Right.
Where other institutions would participate in the harassment or in my
violations of privacy
or in my being slandered, um, or, you know, just character assassination.
Like I, that was a surprise to me.
Um, but it's been interesting.
Why is this not spurned a political, like, scandal?
Like, it feels like it's all about you and your ex-partner.
Cause I, my ex-partner is trying to harm me.
But it's, but it's not, but, but yes.
But like, kind of like, uh, like, uh, it, it seems like the political sex scandals
are
like one of America's favorite things.
Mm-hmm.
Isn't that everything is so schizophrenic these days and there's just scandal,
scandal, scandal,
scandal that no one has time.
There was a scandal about it.
There was a scandal about it a year ago.
Right?
But did he face any blowback from it?
The, the honorable Reverend Dr. Secretary?
I mean, it was before the election.
Yeah.
Right?
It was...
Oh, he was a candidate or a surrogate for Trump.
He, at that point that the scandal, um, kind of sparked, um, he had dropped out
of
the presidential race and he had endorsed Donald Trump.
Yeah.
Do you buy all that crap he says about the vaccine, you know, the health stuff?
No.
You think it's dangerous?
Yeah.
I love it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, I also think that there are some good things that he's done too, right?
Like, I think when it comes to processed foods, dyes, pesticides.
Food dyes.
Yeah.
Um, I thought the work that he did as an environmentalist was important, uh, suing
Monsanto.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's great.
Yeah.
Like, I think that's great.
But, um, when it comes to, like, you know, uh, degrading trust in the medical
profession
or when it comes to, um, negatively, uh, you know, affecting vaccination rates
or, um, sowing
confusion about that stuff, uh, or relying on people who, uh, are not credible
or just not
being transparent in the government.
Yeah.
Um.
Dr. Umar.
Dr. Umar.
Yeah.
And I, I, you know, what, among things that we shared, I think was just, like,
a broad,
a skepticism about power.
Dr. You fell in love.
Dr. Right?
Dr. You fell in love with someone?
Dr. Yeah.
I just, like, fell in love with someone and, um, in the wrong circumstances, in
the wrong
person, right?
And I handled it the wrong way.
Dr. When did you first feel like you'd fallen in love?
Dr. Um, you know, I write about it in the book.
Dr. Yeah, but, like, um, he's told you he loved you.
Dr. Mm-hmm.
Dr. You didn't say it back a couple times.
Dr. Mm-hmm.
Dr. But it started before your, your, uh, profile of him?
Dr. Mm-hmm.
Dr. No, after.
Dr. Because you kind of flamed his, you, you, you dunked on his ass in that.
It was a critical profile.
Dr. Uh, yeah.
Dr. Yeah, they were critical.
Dr. Yeah, I mean, he hated it.
Dr. Yeah, he hated it.
Dr. He really hated it.
Dr. You are able to, like, write critically about subjects and then maintain,
kind of,
their trust in an interesting way.
Dr. Mm-hmm.
Dr. But don't you find, like, if you're critical of someone but you're being
honest about
it and it's not coming from, it's not in bad faith, you're not trying to
inflict
harm or just being honest.
Dr. Yeah.
Dr. That not, you know, often times people are alright with that.
Dr. Oh.
Dr. No, you don't find that.
Dr. No, no one likes to be criticized, even if it's legitimate.
Dr. How did New York Magazine find out about your relationship?
Like, how was that, how did they tell you about it?
Dr. They, um, my, the editor-in-chief confronted me in a meeting.
Dr. Had someone leaked it to them or?
Dr. Um, yeah, uh, Kara Spisher had, um, brought it to them.
Uh, she later told the New York Times about that.
Dr. And she became aware of it from, you don't know, or?
Dr. I have my suspicions.
Dr. I guess, so you didn't feel like you were, like, on a house of cars that
could come
to something like that.
Dr. No, it felt, I mean, it just felt really besides the point, which is, you
know, my mistake
and one of the delusions I was operating under was that, um, it didn't matter,
right?
And it, it mattered.
Everything matters.