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The defense for the alleged assassin, Luigi Mangione, actually gets up in court and talks about how Mangione is the victim, actually claiming with a straight face that his,

quote, beautiful, promising life has been derailed by those pesky murder charges. Wow. I wonder how the murder victim's family is feeling about

right now. He's leaving behind a wife and two sons. And Luigi Mangione's defense team

claims he's the victim. And I haven't even got started on what they are trying to have

thrown out of evidence so a jury will never hear

the truth.

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What is the address of your emergency?

It's not really an emergency.

I have a customer here that some other customers were suspicious of, that he looks like the CEO's shooter from New York.

Okay.

Straight out to Kayla Brantley joining us, investigative reporter at large, Daily Mail.com.

Did they actually say in court that their client, Luigi Mangione, is the victim because his

quote, beautiful promising life has been derailed. Yeah, Nancy, as you mentioned, his team did paint him

as someone with a promising future. Now, one thing that had been documented was that Luigi suffered from debilitating back pain.

This was something that he went through.

He went through back surgery.

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