CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Promotes Luigi Mangione Defense Fund

You can’t make this stuff up. 

Kaitlan Collins, White House Correspondent for CNN, sent out a tweet promoting the defense fund for Luigi Mangione, the assassin who killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. 

The new defense fund was announced in a “Valentine’s Day Message” posted by his defense team on a new website. 

Mangione’s New York legal defense team published a message directly from Mangione on the website, which reads, “I am overwhelmed by – and grateful for – everyone who has written me to share their stories and express their support. Powerfully, this support has transcended political, racial, and even class divisions, as mail has flooded MDC from across the country, and around the globe.”

He acknowledged the challenge of responding to every message but emphasized, “I read every one that I receive. Thank you again to everyone who took the time to write. I look forward to hearing more in the future.”

Collins’ tweet was startling because, first of all, she is White House Correspondent and hence has nothing to do with covering the case; secondly, because it sure looked like a call to go to the site and perhaps donate; and third, one of Collins’ colleagues–a CNN analyst–will be a direct beneficiary because she is on the defense team. 

Real bottom of the barrel stuff. Even for @kaitlancollins pic.twitter.com/OCrUQIkmwq

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) February 15, 2025

Mangione is a cold-blooded killer but has become a folk hero on the left. There is no question that he is the killer–his manifesto makes clear that he is–and his legal team, while doing their job, is stoking the “hero” narrative rather than fighting on purely legal terms. It certainly isn’t Collins’ job to jump on that bandwagon.

Here’s the deleted post. pic.twitter.com/lWbr9EwwA1

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) February 15, 2025

Collins deleted the post after an avalanche of criticism rained down on her, but rethinking her public support for a cold-blooded killer or perhaps just advertising for the business of her colleague who is doing so is gross. 

There is something dark and violent at the heart of modern liberal politics. It celebrates death. Abortion, assisted suicide, sterilizing and mutilating children, population control/antinatalism, and of course political murder in this case and many others. 

Remember CHAZ/CHOP in Seattle? A violent occupation of one of America’s great cities that the Mayor called the “Summer of Love.” Revolutionary violence is in their DNA. 

Massachusetts protects child rapists, letting them go and hiding them from ICE as long as they are illegal aliens. It is child sacrifice. 

This isn’t an American phenomenon. Great Britain has a stunning case right now, in which a man burned a Koran and was stabbed by a Muslim extremist. The man who burned the Koran was remanded to prison, while the man who knifed him was let out on bail. Burning a Koran is more offensive to the authorities than stabbing that man. 

A clear example of two tier justice.

People have claimed we have de facto blasphemy laws & certain people are treated with kid gloves by the authorities.

Well here’s the evidence. No more arguments. https://t.co/E6hDIk7Q6t

— J Stewart (@triffic_stuff_) February 15, 2025

So I shouldn’t be surprised that Collins didn’t even expect pushback for her promoting Mangione’s defense fund. It seems perfectly normal in her world, where you can kill people as long as you really don’t like them for the “right” reasons. 

I wonder, if somebody shot Elon Musk, whether she would do the same for his murderer?