Luigi Mangione's 'fangirls' are 'not me': Taylor Lorenz attempts to clarify comments about alleged murderer

Former New York Times reporter Taylor Lorenz disclosed her comments about alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO murderer Luigi Mangione weren t about her defense of him but about the mentality of his supporters Lorenz spoke with Fox News host Sean Hannity Wednesday in an interview where she attempted to clarify remarks she made about Mangione and his appeal to Americans upset with the healthcare system What I'm describing and if you watch the full segment not just the clip you'll see that I'm just describing the mentality of these fangirls who show up outside Luigi's court and show up outside his jail cell noted Lorenz Those girls are not me OK We have very separate belief systems But I was describing how they believe WHO IS LUIGI MANGIONE SUSPECT IN UNITEDHEALTHCARE CEO MURDER The former Washington Post columnist communicated CNN's Donie O Sullivan last week about Mangione s encouragement among women arguing he s a revolutionary who's famous who s handsome who s young who s smart He s a person who seems like he s this morally good man which is hard to find Lorenz noted Brian Thompson the healthcare executive who was gunned down in midtown Manhattan in December was a -year-old father of two He'd been on the job for nearly four years before he was assassinated outside the New York Hilton SHOCKING VIDEO SHOWS UNITEDHEALTHCARE CEO BRIAN THOMPSON GUNNED DOWN ON NYC STREETHannity questioned Lorenz if she would agree that anyone who praises Mangione lacks a soul a conscience and a heart Well what I will say Sean once again is that I believe in free speech I don't believe in things like you know religious things like souls and all of these things she answered CNN TAKES HEAT FOR JOURNALISTIC MALFEASANCE AFTER AIRING TAYLOR LORENZ FAWNING OVER LUIGI MANGIONE If you can't have sympathy for a dead father and husband do you lack a conscience a soul and a heart That's a simple question You're a smart woman Hannity responded Lorenz reiterated the challenges within the U S healthcare system citing nearly Americans dying each year due to a lack of fitness insurance You want to talk about the assassination of innocent people I believe that the tens of thousands of Americans who die each year because of the lack of soundness insurance That is to me a violence in itself That is assassination the Substack writer explained Hannity petitioned Lorenz one final time if she condemns Mangione s supporters and the people who praise him for allegedly murdering Thompson The people who are showing up outside to assistance Luigi they're exercising their right to speech They're talking about the fact that over people died from a lack of wellbeing insurance in the first two years of the pandemic alone she revealed There are major things we need to acknowledge if we ever want to fix our system We have a violent violent healthcare system Sean and it demands overhaul And that's what we should be focusing on U S Attorney General Pam Bondi reported in early April that she was directing federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty in Mangione s circumstance He faces charges of using a firearm to commit murder interstate stalking resulting in death stalking through use of interstate facilities resulting in death and one count of discharging a firearm that was equipped with a silencer in furtherance of a crime of violence according to a press release from the Department of Justice