By Nathan Guttman August 15, 2017

President Trump retweeted a post from a well-known alt-right activist involved in conspiracy theories — and an image of a CNN reporter being run over by a train.

The original tweet belongs to Jack Posobiac, an Alt-Right follower who has promoted conspiracy theories surrounding the murder of DNC staffer Seth Rich and the pizzagate conspiracy alleging Hillary Clinton’s staff trafficked in children at a Washington D.C. pizza joint.

In his tweet, posted a day after the Charlottesville demonstrations, Posobiac linked to a report about shootings in Chicago and wrote: “Meanwhile: 39 shootings in Chicago this weekend, 9 deaths. No national media outrage. Why is that?”

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In addition to retweeting Posobiac, Trump also posted his own attacks on the media, calling members of the press “truly bad people.” On Tuesday morning Trump shared, and then removed, a tweet of a cartoon showing a train carrying the name Trump running over a CNN reporter. The caption attached to the cartoon read: “Fake news can’t stop the Trump train.”

The tweets came after Trump tepidly denounced white supremacist violence at Charlottesville, which included a far-right demonstrator driving into a crowd of counterdemonstrators.

Contact Nathan Guttman at [email protected] or on Twitter @nathanguttman

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