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Whoopi Goldberg denounces alleged murderer Luigi Mangione landscape.
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The co-hosts discussed Mangione’s attitude during the pretrial hearing.
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“You’re the problem,” Goldberg said, pointing at the show’s camera.
In the wake of the alleged assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, accused murderer Luigi Mangioni continues to fawn over fans at pretrial hearing, landscape Host Whoopi Goldberg rebuked Mangione in an impassioned on-air statement.
The Oscar-winning actress on Tuesday addressed the hot topics surrounding Mangione’s case and the young social media users who have grown to like Mangione as the events unfolded.
Co-host Sarah Haynes opened the conversation by noting that she thinks “a very sad part of his story” is that Mangione “comes from a lot of backgrounds” and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania.
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Whoopi Goldberg speaks to Luigi Mangione on The View
“This is a man who could have been a change maker in the world, who could actually effect change, but instead he chose to murder another human being,” Haynes said. “So I think if he was so proud of what he did, which he seemed very proud of, and we don’t know that he had any level of remorse, I think he should serve his sentence with his head held high because he can make a difference in prison. The people there don’t have a better opportunity.”
Legal expert Sunny Hostin, a former federal prosecutor, said she believed police collected evidence in an unorthodox way and questioned Officer Christy Wasser’s methods. Vassell reportedly found a gun magazine on Mangione, and when police found him at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania five days after the alleged crime, Mangione’s defense team argued that “should be excluded because police did not have a search warrant and had no reason to justify a warrantless search,” according to the Associated Press.
“In this case, she said they were looking for a bomb, but that doesn’t make sense because they were going to evacuate McDonald’s, so you can’t lie to search because this is not that kind of country,” Hostin said. “That being said, I’m not saying he didn’t do a terrible thing, and I’m not saying he was found not guilty, but I’m saying let’s let this process play out the way it should.”
Goldberg concluded his speech by urging people to use methods that don’t involve violence to bring about change, especially in health care.
“Let’s not forget, if you don’t like the system, do something to change it. Taking someone’s life isn’t going to help because now there’s another CEO,” Goldberg said. “The real thought here should be, how do I affect this change? What do I do? How do I complain, what do I do? Because the minute you take up arms, you are the problem.”
Goldberg pointed to footage of the show as he spoke, just before the show cut to a commercial break.
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Luigi Mangione at Manhattan Supreme Court
Goldberg also spoke out on the air in September against the assassination of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk after he was killed during a public speaking event on a Utah college campus earlier this year.
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“If it was JFK or Lincoln or Garfield, that would be terrible. It doesn’t matter. What assassins should always remember is that just because you take someone out, it doesn’t mean the message stops,” Goldberg said in September. “It’s important to remember that.”
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