Summary
Luigi Mangione, charged with the December 2024 murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, released his first public statement through a new website launched by his defense team.
He expressed gratitude for widespread support and acknowledged the letters he has received. The website provides case updates and a fundraiser, which has raised over $400,000.
Mangione has gained a following among those frustrated with the U.S. healthcare system. A poll found 41% of voters under 30 viewed the assassination as acceptable.
His next court date is Feb. 21.
I understand it. You’re in good company. I just can’t be so cavalier about it. If everyone is running around playing Batman, it won’t only be criminals who suffer.
It’s only the extremely wealthy that can kill with impunity in our legal system. If someone shoots a relative of mine, I don’t need to go hunt them down and take care of them myself. For that type of crime, the justice system will try to hold them to account. It is only the crimes of the wealthy and powerful that are not punished by the law. Kill one person with a knife? Life in prison. Kill tens thousand with a pen? You’re a job creator.
I am not worried about a mass campaign of bloody violence unleashed upon the entire population. The kinds of grievances ordinary people have against one another can already be handled in the criminal and civil courts. It is only the crimes of murderers like Thompson that go unpunished. They are the only ones at risk in such a campaign.
To you, the evil is Thompson. To someone else, it’s Biden. Or Obama. Yeah we can just go full French Revolution and murder every single one of them, but that’s not a world I want to live in.
Sure, but conservatives are by n’ large, spineless cowards.