The New York Post reports:
While most New Yorkers are hunkering in place, others are popping corks and staging parties that defy occupancy and social-distancing edicts. Lucian Wintrich, a former White House reporter, is one of them. The 31-year-old contrarian recently hosted a “corona potluck” at his small East Village apartment.
“They can’t diagnose us all,” reads the invite Wintrich sent to a select group for the March 14 gathering. “Don’t wash your hands. Bring your fav dish!” The tongue-in-cheek advert also included an image of a boy covered in chicken pox and a fork digging into a coronavirus spore.
Wintrich once wrote for the right-wing website The Gateway Pundit, and before that caused a stir with “Twinks for Trump”, an LGBT-themed art series that was shown at the 2016 Republican convention in Cleveland.
RELATED: Wintrich, pictured above on the right with Gateway Pundit founder Jim Hoft, was fired from the site in 2018 after he appeared on a white nationalist podcast. In 2017, he earned headlines when a protester snatched his “It’s OK To Be White” speech out of his hands. Prior to that, he earned scorn for tweeting a meme depicting Trump flying into the “CNN Twin Towers.” During his brief stint as a credentialed White House reporter, Wintrich declared that he was only there to troll the “real reporters.”
“We have completely handed over our civil liberties,” one of the attendees complained about the quarantine. #coronavirus #coronaoutbreak #COVIDIOTS #LGBTQ #gay https://t.co/h1GnhCOF9L
— LGBTQ Nation (@lgbtqnation) March 30, 2020
The coming stories of the Corona Potluck Cluster are going to be fascinating https://t.co/d1EP7MGP8S
— Heterodox Asia (@jaspergregory) March 29, 2020