President-elect Trump Monday slammed the “cold-blooded” homicide of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and trashed supporters of accused killer Luigi Mangione.
Trump mentioned he was outraged that some People have expressed sympathy for the person accused of gunning down Brian Thompson on a Manhattan sidewalk on Dec. 4.
“It’s a terrible thing that people seem to admire… like him.” Trump advised reporters at his first press convention since successful the presidential election. “How people can like this guy is… that’s a sickness, actually.”
“It seems there’s a certain appetite for (Mangione),” Trump mentioned. “I don’t get it.”
Trump mentioned the execution-style method of the homicide made it significantly disturbing.
“It was just a cold-blooded, horrible killing,” he mentioned. “The way it was done was so bad. Right in the back.”
Mangione, who was arrested final week in Pennsylvania, reportedly determined Monday to waive extradition again to New York the place he’ll face homicide and different prices associated to the killing of Thompson.
The 26-year-old prep college and College of Pennsylvania graduate allegedly opened hearth on Thompson as he walked to an funding convention on the Hilton Resort on Sixth Ave. earlier than daybreak.
Bullet casings discovered on the homicide scene had been inscribed with the phrases, “Deny,” “Defend” and “Depose” in response to police sources.
Mangione, who some acquaintances say battled debilitating again ache, allegedly fled the crime scene by e-bike and acquired on a bus on the Port Authority Bus Terminal in higher Manhattan.
He was arrested at a McDonald’s restaurant in Altoona, Pennsylvania after an worker acknowledged him from police surveillance images.
Police who arrested Mangione say his backpack contained handwritten manifesto that blamed medical insurance firms for the troubled well being care system and defended the concept of taking pictures an insurance coverage firm govt at his personal “parasitic bean-counter convention.”
Within the days after the homicide, some have mentioned Mangione expressed the deep anger that many People really feel in direction of the medical insurance business.
