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A Breitbart editor has an awful conspiracy theory about Jennifer Lawrence's Vogue cover

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Vogue magazine and Jennifer Lawrence have inadvertently created an anti-Trump conspiracy theory with their new cover.

At least that's what Breitbart's finance and economics editor John Carney believes.

The September issue of the prestigious fashion magazine features four alternative covers composed by different artists, each featuring Lawrence.

Esteemed photographers like Bruce Weber, Inez & Vinoodh plus painter John Currin have all contributed to the issue.

However, the below cover by Annie Leibovitz, featuring Lawrence in a red dress, with the Statue of Liberty in the background, has caused some controversy.

Like most people, you'll probably see that this as a pretty striking and powerful image of one of the most famous actresses in the world.

Carney though, has seen it in a very different light and was triggered enough to share the following post on Twitter.

Despite the magazine cover featuring nothing explicitly political, Carney believed it to be a direct reference to immigration and a new debate around the Statue of Liberty poem.

In a tweet, which the journalist has since deleted, he wrote that the image was:

"clearly and allusion to our current immigration debate, taking the #poemlaw side."

The poem debate arose last week during a heated discussion at a press briefing between CCN's Jim Acosta and senior White House adviser Stephen Miller.

On Wednesday, President Trump announced that he would be supporting a bill that would assess those applying for legal US citizen by their job skills, education and grasp of the English language.

Part of the the poem written in 1886, which can be found at the lower level of the statue, reads:

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

Acosta read this to Miller during the briefing with both men having different opinions on what the poem meant and stood for.

It doesn’t say anything about speaking English or being able to be a computer programmer.

Aren’t you trying to change what it means to be an immigrant coming into this country if you are telling them you have to speak English?

To which Miller replied:

I don’t want to get off on a whole thing about history here, but the Statue of Liberty is a symbol of liberty and lightening the world.

The poem that you’re referring to was added later. It’s not actually a part of the original Statue of Liberty.

While the subject might rumble on between the press and the White House, Zara Rahim decided to shut down Carney's argument by telling him that the photo shoot took place back in June, long before the poem was even an issue.

Unfortunately, Carney didn't get the hint and continued to complain on Twitter.

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