Trump rips public fawning of accused CEO killer Luigi Mangione as a sickness: People seem to admire him
President-elect Donald Trump in an exchange with reporters on Monday ripped the public fawning over Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old Ivy League graduate accused of gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City earlier this month.“I think it’s really terrible that some people seem to admire him — like him,” Trump bemoaned during a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago resort.
“It was cold-blooded, just a cold-blooded, horrible killing.”Trump, 78, added that he hoped it was “fake news” that so many people could be cheering on a man charged with murdering a husband and father of two sons.“You just can’t believe some people — and maybe it’s fake news — I don’t know,” the president-elect went on.“It seems that there’s a certain appetite for [the assasin].
I don’t get it.”“How people can like this guy — that’s a sickness actually, that’s really very bad.Especially the way it was done, it was so bad — right in the back,” he lamented.Earlier this month, Thompson, 50, was shot in the back outside a hotel on Sixth Avenue in Manhattan.
Authorities later apprehended Mangione, a tech whiz who apparently used some of the skills he picked up getting his engineering and computer science degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, a former pal previously told The Post, to 3-D print a firearm that he allegedly used for the shooting.In the time since, a plethora of netizens have praised Mangione, groveling over images of his six-pack abs and glowing about the accused killer railing against the US private health insurance industry in a handwritten manifesto.Former Washington Post media journalist Taylor Lorenz said she took “joy” in the killing.Late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel joked about his writers salivating over Mangione’s chiseled physique and expressing a desire to be placed on the jury that deliberates his case.
Politicians such as Sen.Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) have channeled the rage against health...