Luigi Mangione’s online fan base is next-level, with the hype so wild that people are even offering to cover his legal bills after he was charged in the Brian Thompson murder case.
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00:00Mangione has a lot of supporters, an army of supporters, really, online, who are not
00:06only offering money for his defense, but they're calling out to one person in particular, Kim
00:14Kardashian.
00:15Why?
00:16And that they think in some way that Kim Kardashian can help him once he gets to court, that she
00:23can help him get acquitted of these charges.
00:28Do you know anything else about her experience in starting for the bar, or, well?
00:32Look, she's had experience in criminal justice reform, in getting people who are either wrongly
00:40convicted or harshly sentenced, getting them out of prison.
00:45But as far as a trial, and look, I highly doubt this is a case that Kim Kardashian wants
00:51to get involved in at this point, but it just goes to show you the fervor that there is
00:57online to support Mangione.
01:01And like I said, yes, there are people who are now offering to crowdfund his defense.
01:07His legal fees, I'm so, and I know I'm getting ahead of myself here, Charles, but ultimately,
01:12if this does go to court, and when you have to pick a jury, if they can even convict this
01:16guy with as popular and as beloved, shockingly to say, as he is.
01:21Right.
01:22The weird thing is, can you get an impartial jury, one that is not in his favor?
01:28I don't know if the answer is yes.
01:30Hi, this is Gentry from Georgia.
01:32Although I think Kim is doing an amazing job with the justice and prison reform, I think
01:37we need some veteran lawyers and people with more experience to work this case, because
01:43this is not her expertise, and this is going to be national news.
01:47Kim's not ready for this particular case.
01:49Yeah, I think that's just a pie in the sky thing people are putting out there.
01:53By the way, as I said, his attorney said he's going to plead not guilty, and his attorney
01:57also said, there's no evidence that I've seen connecting him to this.
02:01Well, there are reports that there are fingerprints now from the crime scene that were found on
02:08a water bottle that match his fingerprints.
02:12Wow.
02:13It would be significant to place him right there.
02:14It would be the first piece of evidence.
02:15Right.
02:16Is it enough to convict him?
02:17I would highly doubt it, but the investigation just getting started.
02:23All right.