Trump 'made bombshell assassination claim while being secretly taped'

Donald Trump was allegedly taped making a claim about the 2024 assassination attempt on his life that, if true, 'would shatter our understanding of recent history,' a writer has suggested.

Journalist Ryan Lizza, ex-boyfriend of former New York Magazine reporter Olivia Nuzzi, has claimed she used a sketch artist to secretly surveil Trump at his home in Mar-a-Lago.  

Nuzzi is said to have successfully convinced the publication to commission a portrait of Trump and artist Isabelle Brourman went to his Florida residence under those pretenses in the summer of 2024, Lizza claimed.

While there, Brourman is said to have overheard Trump talk about the recent assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania - however, the details of what he allegedly said are still unknown.

Florida is a two-party consent state, meaning that it is illegal to record a conversation without the consent of both people involved. 

Lizza's claim came in part three of an eight-part series published on Substack on Wednesday about his relationship with Nuzzi, meaning readers may learn what Trump allegedly said in part four.

Feds recently revealed the young man who attempted to assassinate Trump, 20-year-old Thomas Crooks, had a long record of espousing political violence. They also said he acted alone.  

At the time of the alleged recording, in the summer 2024, the now-President was taking campaign meetings with the likes of Matt Gaetz and Susie Wiles.

'Trump had taken a liking to Izzy when she worked as a sketch artist during his Manhattan trial, and Olivia figured he would enjoy having her around him. She was right,' Lizza, 51, wrote of his ex's alleged reasoning in sending in Brourman.

He claimed Nuzzi, 32, was in the midst of collecting material that would 'help make [Robert F Kennedy Jr] the next president.'

Lizza, a former Politico reporter, billed his ex as a sort of undercover 'political operative' for the then-candidate during a fling that began the year before.

The allegations are only the latest from Lizza, who is in the midst of a sprawling, scathing Substack series after calling off his engagement to Nuzzi in September 2024.

At the time, he claimed an affair between Nuzzi and RFK Jr, 71, was the reason.

After the news broke, Nuzzi was put on leave by New York Magazine. She was fully ousted in October 2024. She is Vanity Fair's new west coast editor and is on the verge of publishing a book about the recent scandal, called American Canto. 

In part one of his series, Lizza claimed Nuzzi had not only cheated on him with Kennedy but with former Republican Representative Mark Sanford.

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In the follow-up, Lizza detailed erotic poetry allegedly sent to his then-girlfriend by RFK Jr.

'Yr open mouth awaiting my harvest,” the Health Secretary is alleged to have said at the time.

In the most recent installment, Lizza wrote how, through a practice often referred to as 'catch-and-kill', Nuzzi allegedly snapped up damaging storylines that would have damaged RFK Jr's campaign.

'What you have been reading about here is not really a scandal about sex, but a scandal about journalistic ethics,' wrote Lizza.    

The strategy helped negotiate the terms of RFK Jr's eventual endorsement of Trump and positioned him for a spot in his Cabinet, he claimed.

RFK Jr called off his campaign in August 2024, and, in her recent memoir, Nuzzi admitted to being attracted to Kennedy around this time. She has maintained that it was non-physical and did not influence her reporting.

Kennedy, meanwhile, has denied the affair. He remains married to 60-year-old Cheryl Hines.

 As the claims continue to mount, Nuzzi's Vanity Fair job could be in jeopardy.

The revelations about Nuzzi's alleged affair with Sanford could see her ousted from her new role at Vanity Fair, with bosses there investigating.  

A rep who spoke with The New York Times told the paper: 'We were taken by surprise, and we are looking at all the facts.'

The Daily Mail has contacted Brourman and Nuzzi for comment, as well as representatives for Vanity Fair.