Taylor Lorenz slammed for CNN interview about ‘handsome’ Luigi Mangione | EUROtoday

Journalist Taylor Lorenz has provoked anger after describing Luigi Mangione as “handsome,” “smart,” and “morally good” in a dialogue about his on-line fandom.

Mangione, 26, was arrested in December for the homicide of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, 50, outdoors of the New York Hilton Midtown in Manhattan, earlier than fleeing the scene and sparking a week-long manhunt.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has stated the Justice Department will search the loss of life penalty for what she characterised as “an act of political violence.”

However, Mangione’s actions have been celebrated as vigilante heroism in some corners of the web, with many expressing sympathy together with his anger over the price of medical insurance offered by companies like Thompson’s.

Speaking to CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan for Sunday’s installment of his present MisinfoNationLorenz ridiculed the media outrage over Mangione’s celeb.

“To see these millionaire media pundits on TV clutching their pearls about someone stanning a murderer when this is the United States of America, as if we don’t lionize criminals, as if we don’t have, you know, we don’t stan murderers of all sorts, and we can give them Netflix shows,” she stated.

“There’s a huge disconnect between the narratives and the angles that mainstream media pushes and what the American public feels.”

Asked by O’Sullivan concerning the gatherings of feminine supporters who’ve congregated outdoors of the defendant’s court docket hearings in New York thus far, the previous Washington Post and New York Times journalist laughed.

“You’re going to see women especially that feel like, Oh my God, right? Like, here’s this man who’s revolutionary, who’s famous, who’s handsome, who is young, who’s smart,” she stated.

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“He’s a person that seems like this morally good man, which is hard to find.”

O’Sullivan joked in response: “Yeah, I just realized women will literally date an assassin before they swipe right on me. That’s where we’re at.”

Senator Ted Cruz led the conservative fury when a clip of their flippant change was posted to X.

“This communist is openly celebrating murder,” he fumed. “And treated as an actual ‘journalist.’”

“You know who would disagree with the absurd assertion from Taylor Lorenz that Luigi Mangione is a ‘morally good man’? Brian Thompson’s wife and two kids,” wrote former NCAA swimming star Riley Gaines.

“Taylor Lorenz was born 40 years too late. She would have made an excellent member of the Manson Family,” one other account stated.

Others hit again at Lorenz by calling her “an absolute psychopath”, a “psychotic wench” and, extra unexpectedly, as a “well-known lawn flamingo.”

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The community itself additionally acquired criticism for airing her feedback, with conservative pundit Ian Miller writing: “CNN is happy to call any opinions they don’t like harmful and dangerous and now they’re doing a interview with Taylor Lorenz who openly fawns over Luigi Mangione and calls him moral.”

“Amazing what protection having the right political ideology buys.”

Mangione was extradited to New York following his arrest in a Pennsylvania department of McDonald’s on December 9 and charged with 4 federal crimes: two counts of stalking, homicide via use of a firearm, and an extra firearms offense.

He was arraigned earlier than the state’s Supreme Court on December 23 and pleaded not responsible. He has since been held on the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.

His subsequent federal court docket date is at the moment set for April 18, adopted by a state listening to on June 26.