How did Luigi Mangione’s cold-blooded execution turn into a ‘stalking’ charge?
While running for president in 2016, then-candidate Donald Trump once famously boasted, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK? Prosecutors, unfortunately, did not appeal that decision. Recommended Stories Forget ‘justice’: The cold math of how the Ukraine war actually ends Hakeem Jeffries wants to pack the court.
- ▪While running for president in 2016, then-candidate Donald Trump once famously boasted, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK?
- ▪Prosecutors, unfortunately, did not appeal that decision.
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While running for president in 2016, then-candidate Donald Trump once famously boasted, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK? It’s, like, incredible.” What’s incredible is that neither Trump in his hypothetical nor Luigi Mangione, the confessed killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, could be charged with first-degree murder under either federal or New York State law.Instead, Mangione pleaded guilty to two federal interstate stalking charges resulting in death.
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