How ‘disrespectful’ Olivia Nuzzi was almost kicked off Air Force Two prior to RFK Jr. affair accusations
New York Magazine’s Olivia Nuzzi came close to being tossed off Air Force Two the day before the 2020 election.
The star reporter is currently on leave from the magazine after it was revealed that she engaged in an alleged romantic affair with former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – which she claims was non-physical.
Four years ago, she made waves when traveling with Vice President Mike Pence and his family.
‘She was the most disrespectful person I’ve ever worked with,’ a former Pence aide told DailyMail.com, suggesting Nuzzi only took the assignment to ‘mock everyone openly.’
The New York Magazine correspondent was chosen to be Pence’s print ‘pool’ reporter for the day, traveling to Michigan on November 2 so the VP could join President Donald Trump onstage for the final rallies of the 2020 cycle.
New York Magazine’s Olivia Nuzzi (pictured) came close to being tossed off Air Force Two a day before the 2020 election, with one aide to Vice President Mike Pence recalling that the journalist was ‘the most disrespectful person I’ve ever worked with’
Nuzzi accompanied Vice President Mike Pence (left) on November 2, 2020 to Michigan so he could stand onstage with former President Donald Trump (right) during their final rallies of the 2020 cycle
The job of a pool reporter is to send news highlights, quotes and location updates for the president or vice president, but Nuzzi had different ideas.
She titled one pool report ‘existential crisis’ and mused if Pence ‘thought he’d spend so much of his life this way,’ as the VP listened to Trump’s long-winded stump speech.
‘I wonder if the VP thought he’d spend so much of his life this way. If he’d have done it again knowing what he knows now. Or did he know all along? Was it worth it, if in the end, he doesn’t become president – the outcome every Vice President so desperately hopes for?’ she asked.
Throughout the day, she commented on Karen Pence’s looks – including saying that her hat looked like one that Angelina Jolie wore in the movie Changeling and going into great detail about the second lady’s sleeves.
‘At this closer vantage point, your pooler noticed that the sleeves on Mrs. Pence’s jacket are fluted, like little bells (but not full on bell sleeves),’ Nuzzi wrote.
From the staff’s perspective, Nuzzi went against journalistic protocol by breaking off-the-record agreements and sharing operational security details that she wasn’t supposed to, DailyMail.com was told.
‘And when she was asked to stop, she put all of that in the pool reports,’ the Pence aide said.
New York Magazine Washington Correspondent is pictured on the campaign trail with former President Donald Trump in the waning days of the 2020 election cycle
One aide to Vice President Mike Pence recalled that Olivia Nuzzi (right), photographed in the White House briefing room, was ‘the most disrespectful person I’ve ever worked with’ and only traveled with Pence to ‘mock everyone openly’
The aide added that Nuzzi ‘only went on that trip so she could mock everyone openly in the pool reports and then in her stories.’
Nuzzi tweeted that day that ‘due to popular demand’ New York Magazine would be publishing all of her pool reports from her day spent with Pence.
At the conclusion of the day Nuzzi wrote that she was ‘dismayed’ that ‘the Vice President’s office not only censored your pooler, but threatened to kick her off of AF2, stranding her in Grand Rapids.’
‘In order to avoid being ejected from the flight, your pooler agreed to not have an eye for detail or a personality for the rest of the night,’ Nuzzi said. ‘But now, in the parking lot of [Joint Base Andrews], I’m free! I hope you are, too.’
‘In the words of Bob Dylan: “without freedom of speech, I might be in the swamp,”‘ the magazine correspondent added.