Olivia Nuzzi, a reporter with New York Magazine, asked President Donald Trump at Monday’s Coronavirus press briefing, “If an American president loses more Americans over the course of six weeks than died in the entirety of the Vietnam War, does he deserve to be re-elected?”
Nuzzi’s ‘question,’ which elicited condemnation online, was nothing more than a wildly inappropriate and confrontational political insult that didn’t merit a response.
Nuzzi tweeted about her interaction with the president on Twitter.
It wasn’t the first time Nuzzi sacrificed her journalistic ‘integrity’ in the pursuit of a personal agenda.
In 2018, Nuzzi admitted to entering the home office of Corey Lewandowski without permission for a story and later doubled down by trying to justify her actions amid online outrage.
“…socially I would probably thrive in jail,” she tweeted in response to criticism at the time.
Nuzzi wrote a recent profile on the former White House communications director Hope Hicks, who is so reclusive that Columbia Journalism Review interviewed Nuzzi about her revealing feature. During the interview, Nuzzi explained how she wound up inside a townhouse where Lewandowski, President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, lives.
“I tried to knock on the basement door, but the gate wasn’t open. Then I walked up the steps to the main door and knocked for, like, 10 minutes. And I’m knocking, knocking, nobody’s answering. But after a while, I just touched the door knob, and the door was open. I walked in and I’m in the house, by myself,” Nuzzi said. “So I took this photo of the quote on a wall. I peered around but I didn’t walk fully into the house.”
New Yorker Magazine clearly saw nothing wrong with Nuzzi committing a Class A misdemeanor either since they retained her as an employee. Nonetheless, should a woman who proudly and openly admits a willful disregard for the law have a White House press credential?
