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NEW YORK, Dec 11 (Reuters) - In the days since Luigi Mangione was charged with murder for gunning down a top health insurance executive, more than a thousand donations have poured into an online fundraiser for his legal defense, with messages supporting him and even celebrating the crime.

Most of the messages on the crowd-sourced fundraising site GiveSendGo reflect a deep frustration shared by many Americans over the U.S. healthcare system - where some treatments and reimbursements can be denied to patients depending on their insurance coverage - as well as broader anger over rising income inequality and soaring executive pay.

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    3 days ago

    The crime he is accused of has been broadly condemned

    Uhh, no, it’s not.

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      Saying the crime was “broadly condemned” in the same article about the flood of money and support he’s received, with a large section of said article being about the praise given online, is an interesting way to frame things.

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      The crime he is accused of has been broadly condemned found broad support crisscrossing social and political lines

      ftf them

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      Shhhhh… they are trying to create a narrative! You can’t just go contradicting them like that!

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      Murder has been broadly condemned. In fact, one guy condemned the murder of health insurance customers so much that he murdered a CEO. In general, we want LESS murder.

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      They paid one man to go to California and condemn it and another man to go to florida and condemn it. See, broadly condemned.

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      The crime he is accused of has been broadly condemned by the victims peers, the public however has remained supportive of his actions.