Monica Lewinsky Just Threw Shade At Anthony Scaramucci

WASHINGTON, DC — It's going to be that kind of year, isn't it? Anthony Scaramucci took to Twitter on Wednesday to complain about Ryan Lizza, the reporter who transcribed his vulgar comments and threats to fire the entire White House communications team that ultimately led to his dismissal after just 10 days on the job. And he made a very interesting comparison that attracted the attention of none other than Monica Lewinsky.

"@RyanLizza is the Linda Tripp of 2017," he tweeted. "People know. And he is up at night not being able to live with himself."

Tripp became a household name in the 1990s when she secretly recorded Lewinsky talking on the phone about her relationship with President Bill Clinton, which ultimately led to an explosion in the scandal that resulted in the House impeaching Clinton in 1998.

Here's how Lewinsky herself reacted Thursday morning to Scaramucci's comments:

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— Monica Lewinsky (@MonicaLewinsky) August 10, 2017

Of course, there are some key differences between Scaramucci's situation and Tripp. For one, Scaramucci was a spokesman for the White House who frequently talked on the record with reporters, whereas Lewinsky was a White House intern with no contact with the press. Generally, spokespeople must first ask to go off the record, and the reporter must agree to it, and Scaramucci made no such request.

Second, Tripp made the recordings while residing in Maryland — a two-party consent state — resulting in wiretapping charges against her that were later dropped due to doubts about the credibility of Lewinsky's testimony. Neither D.C. nor New York, the two jurisdictions in question in Scaramucci's case, require two-party consent.

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Tripp was eventually fired from her job at the Pentagon on the last day of the Clinton administration on Jan. 19, 2001. She later filed a lawsuit against the Justice Department and Department of Defense for releasing information from her security and employment files to the media and reached a settlement in 2003 for $595,000 along with retroactive pay and a pension. Since the scandal, she moved to Northern Virginia and currently runs a shop in Middleburg.

Lewinsky, meanwhile, has appeared in commercials for diet company Jenny Craig, introduced a handbag line and became involved in an anti-bullying campaign. But since the mid-2000s she has avoided the limelight, going back to school in London to get a master's of science degree.

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