Corporate Media Allegedly Had Full CEO Assassin Manifesto, But Only Published Snippets

(Daily Caller) Legacy media outlets like CNN, NBC, The Washington Post and The New York Times reportedly possessed a full copy of the manifesto written by Luigi Mangione, who allegedly murdered UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, but refused to publish it, according to independent journalist Ken Klippenstein.

Klippenstein, who published the full manifesto on his website, accused the outlets of withholding the document in a tweet Tuesday.

“I queried the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN and NBC to at least give them a chance to make their case for withholding the Luigi Mangione manifesto. They didn’t even respond!” he wrote.

I queried the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN and NBC to at least give them a chance to make their case for withholding the Luigi Mangione manifesto. They didn’t even respond!

— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) December 10, 2024

CNN’s digital and broadcast coverage revealed lines from the document including “These parasites had it coming” and “I do apologize for any strife and trauma, but it had to be done.” The network cited police sources familiar with the document for their coverage of the lines.

In Mangione’s brief manifesto, he detailed his broad frustration with the American healthcare, claiming the United States is first in healthcare spending but ranks 42nd in life expectancy.

The alleged assassin said he “wasn’t working with anyone” in the Dec. 4 murder and that he was able to find and allegedly kill Thompson thanks to “elementary social engineering, basic CAD [computer-aided design], a lot of patience.”

The Daily Caller has not independently confirmed that any of the outlets Klippenstein accused of withholding the document were in possession of it. The Caller reached out to CNN, NBC, The New York Times and The Washington Post for comment but did not hear back by the time of publication.

Pundits notably compared the immediate availability of Mangione’s manifesto with transgender Nashville shooter Audrey Hale.

“We still don’t know much about the person who committed that atrocity at the Christian school in Nashville,” conservative CNN commentator Scott Jennings noted Tuesday.

“There’s a lot of shootings … there’s a lot of things that are hidden from us, and this guy, Geraldo, shoots and we know more in 5 minutes about him than we do about all these other people, and I wonder why that is.”

Hale shot and killed six people, three of them children, in a March 2023 attack on The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee before ultimately killing herself.

Hale, who allegedly used he/him pronouns, left behind a litany of written materials including a suicide note and 20 journals. A Democratic judge in Tennessee originally blocked the release of the materials until local media sued for the release of the contents.