President-elect Donald Trump is weighing in on Luigi Mangione and his followers within the wake of the homicide of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York Metropolis 2 weeks in the past.
At a press convention Monday morning, Trump was requested what he thinks concerning the case, and the response to it — together with the adoration of many on-line for the suspected killer, Luigi Mangione, who was arrested in Pennsylvania final week.
Trump mentioned … “I feel it is actually horrible that some individuals appear to admire him, like him.”
As TMZ reported, there’s been an enormous response on-line throughout the nation in assist of Mangione, and in opposition to Thompson and different CEOs of healthcare firms — prompting elevated safety for some executives. A wave of merchandise supporting Mangione was pulled from Etsy and different websites, and at the least one on-line funding marketing campaign was additionally taken down.
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“I used to be completely happy to see that it wasn’t particular to this gentleman that was killed, it is simply an total illness versus a selected illness,” Trump mentioned Monday at his Mar-a-Lago property in Florida. “Only a cold-blooded horrible killing — and the way individuals can like this man is — that is a illness, really, that is actually very unhealthy.”
Trump went on, “A factor like that, you’ll be able to’t imagine that some individuals — and possibly it is faux information, I do not know — it is laborious to imagine that that may even be considered.”
Filmmaker Michael Moore supplied his ideas on the case after it was revealed he was name-checked in a purported manifesto discovered in Mangione’s possession when he was arrested … allegedly detailing his anger at healthcare in america. Moore doesn’t excuse the homicide … however he says he understands the general public response to the issues of the American healthcare system, writing “The anger is 1000% justified.”
Comic Chris Rock addressed the case and its controversies on “Saturday Night time Reside” this weekend, cracking a pair jokes about Mangione, then expressing assist for the sufferer’s household … earlier than dropping a zinger concerning the taking pictures.
This case continues to impress a spectrum of reactions throughout the nation. Mangione’s at the moment dealing with costs in Pennsylvania and New York, the place he is charged with second-degree homicide.
