#luigi-mangione

#luigi-mangione

In a May letter that was recently verified by TMZ, Mangione wrote that he downloaded "a bunch" of Taylor Swift and Charli XCX songs to his tablet to "see what all the hype was about" after a "phony" list circulated online saying that he listened to those artists. "So I'm walking laps on the top tier of my unit listening to 'cardigan' by TSwift, when one of the other inmates, 'King,' calls me over to see what I'm listening to," Mangione recalled.

The firmly worded order out of Manhattan singles out two DOJ officials who retweeted President Donald Trump's televised remarks on Friday and Saturday. "He shot someone in the back as clear as you're looking at me," Trump had said of Mangione in a Fox interview. "He shot him right in the middle of the back - instantly dead. This is a sickness." Trump's remarks, posted on the White House-affiliated X.com account Rapid Response 47, were then reposted by DOJ spokesman Chad Gilmartin and by Brian Nieves, a chief of staff at Main Justice.

The first people in line on Tuesday, I was told, started camping out on the sidewalk two days ago. Luigi Mangione, the man accused of gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December 2024, was due in court at 9AM ET for a hearing in one of three concurrent criminal cases against him. And this time everyone was prepared for the mayhem: the signs, the fans, the livestreamers, the protests, the media circus.

Most wore Covid masks, along with hoods and shades - anything to obscure their identities.

This will be a tough one," says Don Worley, the president and managing attorney... It is tough because it will be hard to find a potential juror who has not heard about this.