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Lucian Wintrich (born May 24, 1988) is an American political artist and political commentator and the White House correspondent for the Gateway Pundit. He has frequently been described in media reports as associated with the alt-right, though now with the involvement of Richard B. Spencer in the aforementioned movement Wintrich has disavowed the label.
Biography
Wintrich was born Lucian Einhorn in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He received his BA from Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, where he majored in political science. Pre-highschool, Wintrich attended the experimental prep school Fanny Edel Falk Laboratory School, and then Taylor Allderdice High School. Wintrich's paternal grandfather, Jerzy Einhorn, was a medical doctor born in Sosnowiec, Poland, who served as an officer in the Polish resistance.
Wintrich attained public attention with his pro-Donald Trump presidential candidacy series "Twinks4Trump", photographs of mostly shirtless gay twinks sporting the iconic Make America Great Again baseball caps which are a hallmark of the Trump movement. He also organized what is considered to have been the first pro-Trump art show. He is among the first members of the White House Press Corps to be openly gay and is currently at twenty nine one of the youngest. Wintrich has collaborated with Milo Yiannopoulos, a former editor at Breitbart News.
The day before Donald Trump's inauguration, Wintrich was named as the inaugural White House correspondent for Gateway Pundit, which was newly granted White House briefing credentials by the incoming administration.
Controversies
On February 15, 2017, Wintrich was scheduled to speak to the College Republicans at NYU, but the talk was postponed due to security concerns. On March 23, 2017, he eventually spoke to the NYU College Republicans.
On March 10, 2017, Wintrich was accosted by a fellow White House correspondent, Jon Decker of Fox News in the White House Briefing Room, who loudly accused Wintrich of being a white supremacist. After the briefing at which the event is supposed to have taken place, Wintrich was approached by April Ryan of American Urban Radio Networks, who filmed him answering questions about whether or not he was a racist. Ben Jacobs of The Guardian described Wintrich engaging with Ryan as him "holding his own briefing because nothing matters."