Ex-Washington Publish reporter Taylor Lorenz continued her protection of alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO assassin Luigi Mangione in what many considered as a “past vile” section on CNN Sunday.
Lorenz spoke to “MisinfoNation” host Donie O’Sullivan about Mangione’s enchantment to individuals, significantly for ladies. Mangione grew to become one thing of a folks hero to the far-left after he was arrested for the homicide of Brian Thompson, with some viewing it as a comeuppance for the grasping insurance coverage business.
“Right here’s this man who’s a revolutionary, who’s well-known, who’s good-looking, who’s younger, who’s sensible, he’s an individual who looks as if he’s this morally good man, which is tough to seek out,” Lorenz teased in a snippet that was shared on X.
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Journalist Taylor Lorenz has repeatedly made mild of the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. (Emma McIntyre/Getty Photographs for TheRetaility.com)
O’Sullivan jokingly added, “Yeah, I simply realized ladies will actually date an murderer earlier than they swipe proper on me. That’s the place we’re at.”
Lorenz, an impartial journalist and former Washington Publish reporter recognized for her quite a few on-line controversies, was amongst those that appeared to sympathize with Thompson’s assailant final yr. At one level, she posted, “Folks surprise why we wish these executives useless,” in response to information about Blue Cross Blue Protect not overlaying anesthesia for the complete size of some surgical procedures.
Many social media customers have been disgusted with the section that includes Lorenz and O’Sullivan laughing, with most calling out CNN for airing a “heinous” protection of people that admire Mangione.
“CNN is now celebrating a fiery however principally peaceable assassination of a husband and father,” conservative commentator Steve Visitor wrote.
RedState author Bonchie remarked, “It is a doughy CNN correspondent nodding approvingly whereas a psychopath asserts it’s fantastic to assist cold-blooded homicide for political causes. That is CNN.”
“The one factor extra embarrassing than being Taylor Lorenz is citing her as an authority in your present about *misinformation*. Yikes, mate,” Mediaite editor Isaac Schorr commented.
“That is past vile. Totally heinous,” White Home Deputy Chief of Workers Stephen Miller wrote.
“CNN is glad to name any opinions they don’t like dangerous and harmful and now they’re doing a interview with Taylor Lorenz who brazenly fawns over Luigi Mangione and calls him ethical. Wonderful what safety having the appropriate political ideology buys,” OutKick author Ian Miller commented.
The Spectator contributing editor Stephen Miller wrote, “I believe we’re completed right here in your lectures of extremism as you sit there dodo eyed whereas she calls a literal murderer an ethical man.”
“Disgusting,” actor Dean Cain declared.
Fox Information Digital reached out to CNN for remark.
Through the clip, Lorenz additionally referred to as out the mainstream media for “clutching their pearls” and pushing an out-of-touch “narrative.”
“It’s hilarious to see these millionaire media pundits on TV clutching their pearls about somebody stanning a assassin when that is the US of America, as if we don’t lionize criminals,” Lorenz mentioned. “As if we don’t stan murderers of all types. And we give them Netflix reveals. There’s an enormous disconnect between the narratives and angles a sure mainstream media pushes and what the American public feels, and also you see that in moments like this.”
Lorenz additionally touted getting an viewers enhance for her Substack publication Person Magazine on account of her sympathetic writings about Mangione.
Luigi Mangione seems in Manhattan Felony Courtroom for a standing listening to in New York Metropolis on Friday, Feb. 21, 2025. Magnione is accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outdoors of a Manhattan lodge final yr. (Curtis Means/Pool)
She added, “I can inform you I noticed the most important viewers development that I’ve ever seen [was] as a result of individuals have been like, ‘oh, any individual, some journalist is definitely talking the anger I really feel.’”
Reached for remark, Lorenz claimed she was really involved in regards to the development of the “Free Luigi” motion and violent on-line rhetoric.
“I do assume it is actually regarding that extra individuals are basically collaborating in these actions, but in addition similar to casually snug with actually violent form of rhetoric. And clearly, our system is violent…however in regular, wholesome democracies, you do not typically see individuals speaking, kind of celebrating this sort of violence,” Lorenz informed Fox Information Digital.
She added, “This Luigi motion is kind of indicative of a few of that cynicism the place you are seeing individuals which can be simply actually offended and upset with the system.”
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Piers Morgan unloaded on Taylor Lorenz for claiming she felt pleasure over UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s homicide. (Screenshot/PiersMorganUncensored)
Lorenz has been referred to as out for showing to excuse and even romanticize Mangione’s actions since Thompson was killed, nonetheless. Only some hours after the homicide was reported, Lorenz wrote a publish suggesting different healthcare executives needs to be focused.
When discussing her publish on Piers Morgan’s present days later, Lorenz once more went viral after saying she felt “pleasure” after Thompson’s demise.
“I do imagine within the sanctity of life and I believe that’s why I felt, together with so many different People, pleasure, sadly,” Lorenz informed Morgan. “Perhaps not pleasure however definitely not empathy.”
“How may this make you joyful?” Morgan requested. “This man is a husband, he’s a father, and he’s been gunned down in the midst of Manhattan. Why does that make you joyful?”
Lorenz later claimed that she was being mischaracterized within the media and meant that she discovered pleasure in elite pundits being pressured to confront the “barbaric nature of our healthcare system.”
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