Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson who is facing a slew of charges in Pennsylvania and New York arrived to court Tuesday, yelling.
Mangione is now in court awaiting his extradition hearing.
Mangione could be heard yelling, in part, “it’s completely out of touch and an insult to the intelligence of the American people. It’s lived experience!”
Anyway, it's not on any of us to apologize for or reconcile with the fact that a guy who would shoot someone dead in the street isn't a perfect gentleman with entirely coherent politics. That's not how anything in this country works. At the same time, it's not hard to have some sense of solidarity with the notion that Americans have been extorted and left to die as a cold matter of course by a health insurance mega bureaucracy for decades.
Corrupt politicians may shrug their shoulders at it all they want, but most of us would say this is a deeper matter than a "policy difference."
Update: No need to go scouring the guy's social media or interview his high school classmates for clues. This seems pretty straightforward.
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