I have no use for Taylor Lorenz, the former Washington Post reporter. But, apparently, she did a video interview on CNN praising Luigi Mangione. He is the (alleged) murderer of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, shot on the street outside his hotel in midtown Manhattan back in December. John noted the Lorenz interview earlier.
Fox News quotes Lorenz from the CNN interview,
“Here’s this man who’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 teased in a snippet that was shared on X.
The glamor of evil, or something. A good man is hard to find.
Meanwhile, in perhaps a completely unrelated event, the following occurred here in a Minneapolis suburb this morning, as local KARE-11 TV reported,
Minnetonka police said a suspect has been taken into custody “without incident” after prompting a large police response at the UnitedHealthcare campus in Minnetonka.
The Star Tribune adds,
Events unfolded just after 11 a.m., when an intruder was spotted near the campus on the 9700 block of Healthcare Lane. Several agencies responded to the scene.
Just a coincidence. KSTP-5 (ABC) has news on the suspect,
The intruder was identified later in the day by his mother as 26-year-old Ian Wagner. Wagner is currently in custody at the Hennepin County Jail.
KSTP adds,
Wagner’s mother said that her son wanted to send a message, adding that he called her from outside the building and told her he was going to shoot into it.
Sources tell 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS that a gun was found in the front seat of Wagner’s car. It’s not clear how close he got to the building, but the barriers in the parking lot stopped his vehicle.
Jeepers.
