During a news conference... Trump suggested that there's either something wrong with people valorizing Mangione - or something wrong with the media reporting on that public reaction. 'How people can like this guy, is... that's a sickness, actually,' Trump said of the 26-year-old alleged assassin... 'It's hard to believe that can even be thought of, but it seems that there's a certain appetite for him,' the former and future president continued. 'I don't get it.'
During that same news conference... Trump also sounded off on the way Thompson was shot. 'It was cold-blooded; just a cold-blooded, horrible killing,' the president-elect said. 'The way it was done, it was so bad, right in the back and very bad.'
There's little surprise that Trump, himself a CEO and the subject of an attempted assassination earlier this year, would take this stance on the shooting, though the amount of time it took him to make the remarks feels telling.
It's striking that the president-elect would find it appropriate to pal around with one New York killer while discussing another's murder.
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