Anthony Scaramucci: Ryan Lizza is the ‘Linda Tripp of 2017’

“People know. And he is up at night not being able to live with himself,” Scaramucci tweeted.

Scaramucci’s mention of Tripp is a direct reference to the Monica Lewinsky scandal in the 1990s. Lewinsky, a White House intern, had confided to Tripp of her extra-marital affair with then-President Bill Clinton. Tripp had recorded their conversation, convinced Lewinsky to keep her stained dress and then went to federal investigators.

Scaramucci said, in a follow-up tweet, that Lizza “absolutely taped the call without my permission. #lowlife.”

An interview last month, initiated by Scaramucci, that Lizza asserts was not off-the-record, contained several profane comments about Scaramucci’s White House colleagues, including White House chief of staff Reince Priebus and chief strategist Steve Bannon.

“Reince is a fucking paranoid schizophrenic, a paranoiac,” Scaramucci said during the call. “I’m not Steve Bannon, I’m not trying to suck my own cock,” he also said.

Lizza says he recorded the conversation, and some of the audio has already been made public.

Scaramucci said previously he felt betrayed by Lizza, as his and Lizza’s families have long been close. Lizza pushed back on that relationship, telling the HuffPost that, “I’ve only known Anthony in his capacity as a Trump surrogate and then White House communications director.”

After the Lizza interview, when former Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly took over as White House chief of staff, Scaramucci was ousted from the Trump administration. During his brief tenure, he not only took a hardline stance on leakers, but also sought to get the media to keep his family out of the picture, as he reportedly had been going through a divorce.

Earlier in the day it was revealed that Scaramucci will make his first television appearance since leaving the White House on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” on Monday.