Alt-right White House correspondent defends sharing anti-CNN meme that depicts Trump as 9/11 plane

Twitter page of Lucian B. Wintrich.
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The White House-accredited correspondent for alt-right website Gateway Pundit, Lucian B. Wintrich, shared a meme Tuesday that depicted one of the 9/11 planes superimposed with President Trump's head as it approached the World Trade Center, which had been overlaid with the CNN logo. "Perhaps unintentionally," Newsweek writes, "Wintrich approvingly conflated Trump with al Qaeda while casting CNN in the role of the 3,000 innocents who were killed that morning."

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Jeva Lange was the executive editor at TheWeek.com. She formerly served as The Week's deputy editor and culture critic. She is also a contributor to Screen Slate, and her writing has appeared in The New York Daily News, The Awl, Vice, and Gothamist, among other publications. Jeva lives in New York City. Follow her on Twitter.