Former New York Times reporter Taylor Lorenz The murderer Luigi Mangione Not about her defense against him, but about the mentality of his supporters.
Lorenz spoke with Fox News host Sean Hannity in an interview Wednesday to try to clarify her comments about Mangione and his attraction to Americans’ uneasyness in the health care system.
“What I want to describe, if you watch the whole part, not just the clip, you will find that I’m just describing These charming [who] “Showing out of Luigi’s courtroom, out of his prison cell. Those girls aren’t me, okay? We have a very independent belief system. But I’m describing their beliefs.”
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Luigi Maxione: Arrested for suspected forgery, not carrying firearms without permission, tampering with records or identification, possessing criminal tools and false identification at law enforcement agencies in Altoona, Pennsylvania on December 9, 2024. (Pennsylvania Department of Corrections)
The former Washington Post columnist told Mangione’s support among women last week on CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan and considered him “a revolutionary, famous, famous, handsome, young and smart.”
“He’s a man who looks like this morally good person and it’s hard to find,” Lorentz said.
Brian Thompson, Healthcare Director He was shot dead in midtown Manhattan in December and is a 50-year-old father.
He had been working for nearly four years before he was assassinated outside Hilton, New York.
Shocking video shows United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson being shot dead on New York Street
Luigi Mangione’s vulnerable composite material with illustrations of Brian Thompson
Hannity asked Lorenz if she agreed to praise anyone who praised Mangione for lack of “soul, conscience and heart”.
She replied, “Well, I’m going to say, Sean believes in freedom of speech again. I don’t believe in religious things like the soul and all these things.”
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“If you can’t sympathize with your dead father and husband, are you lacking your conscience? Soul and heart? This is a simple question. You are a smart woman,” Hannity replied.
Lorenz reiterates the challenges within the U.S. health care system because nearly 70,000 Americans die each year due to lack of health insurance.
“You want to talk about the assassination of innocent people? I believe in thousands of Americans [who] Deaths every year due to lack of health insurance. That said, to me, this is violence in itself. That’s assassination. ” explained the alternative author.
Hannity asked Lorentz if she was the last time Condemns supporters of Mangione and those who praised him for allegedly murdering Thompson.
“people [who] Appearing outside to support Luigi, they are exercising their right to speak. They are talking about the fact that 320,000 people died from [a] In the first two years of the pandemic alone, health insurance was lacking. ” she said.
“If we want to fix our system, we need to acknowledge some major things. We have a violent, violent healthcare system, sean, and need reform. That’s what we should focus on.”
Luigi Mangioni was escorted by a New York City helicopter from a New York City, New York, Thursday, December 19, 2024. (Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox News Number)
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced in early April that she directed federal prosecutors to seek death penalty in the Mangione case.
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He faces charges of murder with a gun, interstate stalking, resulting in death, death through the use of an interstate facility, and one count of release of a firearm equipped with a silencer to further promote violent crime, According to the press release From the Ministry of Justice.
