The former New York Times reporter Taylor Lorenz said his comments on the alleged CEO of UnitedHealthcare Killer Luigi Mangione It was not his defense of him but the mentality of his followers.
Lorenz spoke with Fox News presenter Sean Hannnessday in an interview where he tried to clarify the comments he made about Mangione and his appeal for annoying Americans with the health system.
“What I am describing, and if you see the complete segment, not only the clip, you will see that I am only describing the mentality of These fangirls [who] It appears outside the Court of Luigi and appears outside his jail cell, “Lorenz said.” Those girls are not me, okay? We have very separate belief systems. But I was describing how they believe. “
Who is Luigi Mangione, suspicious of the murder of the CEO of Unitedhealthcare?
Luigi Magnione: arrested for alleged falsification, firearms that will not be carried out without a license, manipulating records or identification, have instruments of a crime and false identification to the police authorities in Altoona, Pennsylvania. (Penylvania Corrections Department)
The former Washington Post columnist told Donie O’Sullivan of CNN last week about Mangione’s support women, arguing that he is a “revolutionary, famous, who is handsome, who is young, who is intelligent.”
“He is a person who seems to be this man morally good, which is difficult to find,” Lorenz said.
Brian Thompson, The Medical Care Executive Who was awarded in the center of Manhattan in December, was a father of two children of 50 years.
He had been at work for almost four years before being killed outside the Hilton in New York.
The shocking video shows the CEO of Unitedhealthcare, Brian Thompson, shot on NYC Street
Composed with errors for Luigi Mangione with insertion of Brian Thompson
Hannity asked Lorenz if she would agree that anyone who praises Mangione lacks “a soul, a consciousness and a heart.”
“Well, what I will say, they are, once again, I believe in freedom of expression. I don’t believe in things, you know, religious things like souls and all these things,” he replied.
“If you can’t sympathize with a dead father and husband, he lacks awareness? A soul and a heart? That is a simple question. You are an intelligent woman, “Hannity replied.
Lorenz reiterated the challenges within the US health system, citing almost 70,000 Americans who die every year due to the lack of medical insurance.
“Do you want to talk about the murder of innocent people? I think the tens of thousands of Americans [who] That every year due to the lack of health insurance. That is, for me, a violence in itself. That is the murder, “said the replacement writer.
Hannity asked Lorenz one last time Condemns the followers of the mangarian And the people who praise him for allegedly killing Thompson.
“Town [who] They are appearing outside to support Luigi, they are exercising their right to speech. They are talking about the fact that some 320,000 people died [a] Lack of medical insurance in the first two years of pandemic alone, “he said.
“There are important things that we must recognize if ever because to fix our system. We have a violent and violent health system, they are, and it needs reform. And that should focus.”
Luigi Mangioni is escorted by a New York Police helicopter in New York City, New York, on Thursday, December 19, 2024. Mangione is the main suspect in the murder of the CEO of United Healthcare, Brian Thompson. (Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox News Digital)
The United States Attorney General PAM Bondi announced at the beginning of April that he was ordering federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty in the case of Mangione.
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It faces the charges of using a firearm to commit a murder, the interstate stalking results in death, harassment through the use of interstate facilities that results in death and a confounding firearm charge that was equipped with a silencer in the course of a crime or violence, According to a press release Of the Department of Justice.