A judge just ruled luigi mangione's manifesto notebook can be used at trial. here's what he actually wrote in it and why half of america still thinks he's a hero.
i want to be clear upfront what mangione is accused of doing is a crime. a man is dead. that matters.
but the reaction to this case has revealed something uncomfortable about how americans feel about their healthcare system. and yesterday's court ruling just brought it all back.
a manhattan judge ruled that prosecutors can use two key pieces of evidence at mangione's september murder trial:
a 3D-printed gun that matches shell casings found at the scene
a red notebook prosecutors have called a "manifesto"
here's what was actually written in that notebook.
mangione wrote about rebelling against what he called "the deadly, greed fueled health insurance cartel." he praised the unabomber ted kaczynski. he wrote "i finally feel confident about what i will do."
he also wrote "delay, deny, depose" on the ammunition mimicking the exact phrase used to describe how insurance companies avoid paying claims.
and yet two dozen supporters showed up to court yesterday wearing "free luigi" t-shirts.
this case has never really been just about one man killing one CEO. it became a lightning rod for every person who was denied a claim, every person who couldn't afford treatment, every person who watched someone they love die while an insurance company deliberated.
the trial starts september 8. and it's going to force america to have a conversation it has been avoiding for a very long time.
i put together the full breakdown of the evidence ruling, what's in the notebook, and what this trial means for the american healthcare debate.
read the full breakdown here [ https://www.creativehives.co/luigi-mangione-trial-evidence-manifesto/ ]
do you think mangione is a villain, a symptom, or something more complicated than either?