Who Is Ryan Lizza? Scaramucci Calls New Yorker Reporter 'Linda Tripp Of 2017'

Former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci on Wednesday called the New Yorker reporter, Ryan Lizza, the “Linda Tripp of 2017.” Scaramucci compared Lizza to the former civil servant for publishing the infamous interaction between him and the reporter where he used obscene words to describe senior officials working in the White House. After the conversation was published, Scaramucci resigned from his post within ten days of assuming the office.

"[Ryan Lizza] is the Linda Tripp of 2017. People know. And he is up at night not being able to live with himself (sic)," Scaramucci tweeted Wednesday.

Reacting to his comment, a Twitter user asked Scaramucci if he was accusing the New Yorker reporter of recording his conversation without his consent like Tripp recorded Monica Lewinsky's telephonic conversation in the 1990s. "Yes. He absolutely taped the call without my permission. #lowlife," Scaramucci responded to the user.

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Tripp is said to have secretly recorded the phone calls between her and Lewinsky, who was a White House intern at the time, in 1998. Lewinsky described her affair with the then president in the phone calls.

In July, Lizza reported about an interaction he had with Scaramucci where the former White House Communications Director went on to rant about the senior White House officials' working, including former Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and Chief strategist Stephen Bannon.

Scaramucci called Priebus a "f------ paranoid schizophrenic" and parodied him saying, "I’m not Steve Bannon, I’m not trying to suck my own c—" during the infamous interview.

Lizza currently works as the Washington correspondent for the New Yorker magazine and is also an on-air contributor for CNN. Before he joined the New Yorker in 2007, he served as a political correspondent for another media organization, the New Republic, between 1998 and 2007. Prior to that, he worked as a correspondent for the GQ magazine.

According to his bio on the New Yorker website, since 1998, Lizza "has covered most of the country’s major political stories, including the last four Presidential campaigns, and has written many political profiles for The New Yorker, on Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Mitt Romney, John McCain, Paul Ryan, Eric Cantor, Michele Bachmann, Darrell Issa, Peter Orszag, Larry Summers, Rahm Emmanuel, and John Hickenlooper, among others."

Lizza has also previously written for the Atlantic Monthly, Washington Monthly and the New York Times. He has won several awards for his work including the "2012 National Press Club's Hood Award for Diplomatic Correspondence" for his article "The Consequentialist," "White House Correspondents' Association’s Aldo Beckman Memorial Award" for a series on former President Barack Obama’s presidency and his re-election campaign.

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His article "Making It" was "a 2009 National Magazine Award" finalist, and his 2010 article "As the World Burns" received honorable mentions from the Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting and the National Press Foundation Dirksen Award for Distinguished Reporting of Congress," according to his bio on the website.

Just days after the former investor’s interaction with Lizza was published, Trump abruptly fired him. Scaramucci said he has felt betrayed by Lizza, as his and the reporter’s family were close. Lizza commented to the remark in an interview with the Huffington Post, saying, "I've only known Anthony in his capacity as a Trump surrogate and then White House communications director.

It was also revealed Wednesday that Scaramucci will make his first television appearance on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" next Monday. Colbert confirmed the news and tweeted "heads up for our censors to get ready," which Scaramucci also re-tweeted following his posts on Lizza.