Taylor Lorenz is back in the news after pulling another crazy stunt. As Matt covered, Lorenz fawned over accused murderer Luigi Mangione during a CNN interview. "You’re going to see women, especially, that feel like, 'Oh my God…Here’s this man who is revolutionary, who’s famous, who’s handsome, who’s young, who’s smart. He’s a person that seems…this morally good man, which is hard to find,'" she claimed, while host Donie O'Sullivan joked about it. Following the backlash, Lorenz is trying to claim she wasn't actually praising Mangione, who is accused of murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last December. Attorney General Pam Bondi has directed prosecutors to seek the death penalty for Mangione.
Among the many to share Lorenz's comments in horror on social media was conservative commentator Matt Walsh, who quoted a repost of O'Sullivan. In addition to joking about how "I just realized women will literally date an assassin before they swipe right on me," O'Sullivan had quite the framing of the interview. The program was ironically titled "MisinfoNation: Extreme American."
Psychotic wench Taylor Lorenz gushes over Luigi Mangione, calls him a “morally good man,” and brags that fan-girling a murderer has led to the biggest audience growth she’s ever had. The CNN “journalist” sits and laughs along. Just an utterly depraved display all around. https://t.co/EJkaZNSGEy
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) April 13, 2025
Lorenz didn't take too well to Walsh being among those calling her out for her remarks, as Sister Toldjah at our sister site, RedState, picked up on.
In a post on Sunday night, Lorenz downplayed her remarks as being about how Mangione's supporters regard him as a "morally good man." Even then, she still tried to defend Mangione in a way by adding in parentheses that "we haven’t even heard him speak so who knows what his actual motivations/morals are."
Putting aside this isn’t what I said, I said that *his supporters* view him as a “morally good man” (we haven’t even heard him speak so who knows what his actual motivations/morals are). But psychotic wench is a beautiful new phrase thank you Matt :) https://t.co/Dnd8XMW6WU
— Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz) April 14, 2025
Lorenz restricted replies to her post, but of the nine reposts, four of them are quoted reposts taking issue with her narrative. There are also presently just under 50 likes. Walsh's quoted repost of O'Sullivan meanwhile enjoys 9,000 likes.
Since the show aired Sunday night, Lorenz has been posting incessantly about this and all kinds of topics, including her favorites, such as COVID and anti-Israel propaganda. She's still posted plenty about trying to defend and walk back her remarks, though, and she still, in her way, tries to defend Mangione.
When you read the full quote you see that I’m actually saying *his supporters* view him as a “morally good man”, not that I see him that way (we don’t actually know his motivations/morals bc he hasn’t spoken yet). Poor @donie catching strays for “laughing gaily” lmao https://t.co/xmV8etINiJ pic.twitter.com/Jug2SE2LMU
— Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz) April 14, 2025
Lol I didn't even "praise" him I said that there are millions of Americans who rightfully view our healthcare system as barbaric and have made him into a hero. I even stipulated that we don't know his true ideology yet bc he hasn't spoken. https://t.co/ADEHqBXglo
— Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz) April 14, 2025
Me: “The women who show up outside Luigi’s jail believe him to be this moral hero, and they’re in for a rude awakening when he actually starts speaking. We don’t actually know his belief system or morals at all.”
— Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz) April 14, 2025
The entire media: TAYLOR LORENZ SAYS LUIGI IS MORALLY GOOD
🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
For all of Lorenz's lamenting, it's worth reminding that she's made noteworthy comments about Mangione before, and not in a good way. She gushed over the accused killer last December, just days after Thompson's death. The fit of giggles she also found herself in irked host Piers Morgan as well, and even led him to include expletives in his questions for Lorenz.
As Mediate quoted from that interview Lorenz did with Morgan:
Why would you be in such a celebratory mood about the execution of another human being?” he questioned. “Aren’t you supposed to be on the caring, sharing left where, you know, you believe in the sanctity of life?”
Lorenz replied, “I do believe in the sanctity of life and I think that’s why I felt, along with so many other Americans, joy, unfortunately.”
Lorenz’s answer visibly shocked Morgan, who asked, “Joy?! Serious? Joy at a man’s execution?”
“Maybe not joy, but certainly not empathy,” Lorenz declared.
Morgan pressed, “How can this make you joyful? This guy is a husband, he’s a father, and he’s been gunned down in the middle of Manhattan. Why does that make you joyful?”
Lorenz's attempts to clarify her remarks thus look even more ridiculous when we point to comments she made in recent months.
Besides the platforming of Lorenz and O'Sullivan thinking this was an appropriate time to joke about himself with some self-deprecating humor, CNN has been plagued by narratives around Mangione in other ways.
In February, one of their hosts, Kaitlan Collins, shared the link for a defense fund for Mangione. She quickly deleted the post, though Collins still tried to claim that she didn't share a fundraising link for the accused murderer. Her post claiming she did no such thing was in response to an article from the New York Post and has received close to 7,000 replies reminding her she, in fact, did so.
This is not true. I posted that his attorneys created a website, which is newsworthy and other outlets have also reported on. In no way did I share a fundraising link for him.
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) February 16, 2025
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