“The View”'s Whoopi Goldberg Scolds Alleged Murderer Luigi Mangione Amid Pretrial Hearing: 'You Are the problem'

'The View' co-hosts weigh in one year after Mangione was arrested and pleaded not guilty on all charges for the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

via: EW

As accused murderer Luigi Mangione continues to court fans amid his pretrial hearing following the alleged assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, The View moderator Whoopi Goldberg has scolded Mangione in an impassioned statement on the air.

The Oscar-winning actress introduced a Hot Topic Tuesday about Mangione's case, as well as young social media users who've grown fond of Mangione during the developments.

Cohost Sara Haines began the conversation by pointing out what she felt is a "really sad part about his story," because Mangione "came from a lot of money" and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania.

"This person could've been a change maker in the world, he could've actually effected change, and yet he opted to murder another human," Haines said. "So I think, if he's this proud of what he's done, which he seems to be very proud, we don't know of his remorse on any level, I think he should serve his time with his head up on his shoulders because he could make a difference in prisons. There are people there that didn't have a better chance."

Legal expert and former federal prosecutor Sunny Hostin said she felt that police handled collecting evidence in an unorthodox manner, and questioned the methods of officer Christy Wasser. Wasser reportedly found a gun magazine in Mangione's possession, which, per the Associated Press, Mangione's defense team argued "should be excluded because police didn’t have a search warrant and lacked the grounds to justify a warrantless search" when officers found him at a McDonald's in Pennsylvania five days after the alleged crime.

"In this instance, she said they were searching for a bomb, but that doesn't make sense because they would've evacuated the McDonald's, so you can't use a lie to conduct a search, because this country is not that kind of country," Hostin said. "All that to say, I'm not saying he didn't do a horrible thing, I'm not saying he's been found innocent, but I am saying that let's let the process work the way that it's supposed to work."

Goldberg ended the segment by urging people to bring about change — particularly within the healthcare sector — using methods that don't involve violence.

"Let's not forget, if you don't like the system, do something about changing it. Taking somebody's life is not going to help, because there's now another CEO in place," Goldberg said. "The real thinking here should be, how do I affect change to this? what do I do? How can I complain, what do I do? Because the minute you pick up a weapon, you are the problem."

Goldberg pointed toward the show's camera as she spoke, just before the program cut to a commercial break.

Goldberg also spoke out on the air against Charlie Kirk's assassin in September, after the conservative commentator was killed during a public speaking event on a college campus in Utah earlier this year.

"It's awful when it's a Kennedy or a Lincoln or a Garfield. It doesn't matter. What assassins should always remember is, just because you take somebody out, doesn't mean the message is going to stop," Goldberg said in September. "It's important to keep that in mind."

The View airs weekdays on ABC. 

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No Whoopi, people like you, Alyssa and Sarah with your cuckation to billionaires are the problem.

No way I am condoning what Luigi did, but as I have said many times over I understand why he did what he did.

What Luigi allegedly did was more than take a CEO's life. He also shined a spotlight on the atrocities insurance companies do daily to millions of Americans. And speaking of which, where is the outrage against the insurance companies who continue to deny coverage to so many American people?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if I'm buying into healthcare, and I get sick or end up with some life-altering illness, those so-called insurance companies you went on a previous Hot Topics rant about buying into should cover my basic needs, right?

And Sarah saying that Luigi coming from a wealthy family that he could have changed the healthcare system from within is downright laughable and shows how out of touch she and half the panel is on how Americans are struggling, and how horrible the healthcare system is in America.

You have no idea of his financial situation, and if he would have been handed the family business to change the system from within, what makes you think the people within the system would have allowed the change? When people in the corporate sylo are making money hand over fist, anytime one person stands up against the establishment, things tend to not go well for them. However, if millions stand up against the establishment, there's only so much they can do to hold the masses off.

It just shows yet again a bunch of rich, corporate, centrist Democrats and "independent's" (which Sarah claims she is) are completely out of touch with the realities of the American people. And kudos to the people in the comments over on YouTube who were eating up these clueless clucking hens.

Those of us with a functioning brain know that people like Luigi aren't the problem. The problem are corporations and oligarchs robbing the American people of universal healthcare, and the so-called Democrats who refuse to fight for Americans to have a basic right to live in a world they buy into by working their asses off until they collapse. But they wouldn't know anything about that because these broads get paid millions to run their cotton mouths for an hour.