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 think it’s really terrible that some people seem 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 corporations — prompting elevated safety for some executives. A wave of merchandise supporting Mangione was pulled from Etsy and different websites, and no less than one on-line funding marketing campaign was additionally taken down.
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“I was happy to see that it wasn’t specific to this gentleman that was killed, it’s just an overall sickness as opposed to a specific sickness,” Trump mentioned Monday at his Mar-a-Lago property in Florida. “Just a cold-blooded horrible killing — and how people can like this guy is — that’s a sickness, actually, that’s really very bad.”
Trump went on, “A thing like that, you can’t believe that some people — and maybe it’s fake news, I don’t know — it’s hard to believe that that can even be thought of.”
Filmmaker Michael Moore provided 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 the US. 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 Live” this weekend, cracking a pair jokes about Mangione, then expressing assist for the sufferer’s household … earlier than dropping a zinger concerning the capturing.
This case continues to impress a spectrum of reactions throughout the nation. Mangione’s at present going through expenses in Pennsylvania and New York, the place he is charged with second-degree homicide.
