Exclusive | DC mayoral candidate and Mamdani wannabe employs fan-girl of accused killer Luigi Mangione
WASHINGTON — A top aide to Democratic socialist DC mayoral candidate Janeese Lewis George fan-girled over Luigi Mangione after his arrest for allegedly executing a healthcare exec, The Post can reveal.Makia Green — a longtime adviser and now political director for George, a New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani-wannabe — posted on Threads on Dec.11, 2024, “Comment when you see this #freeluigi and pardon the youth!” Cops had arrested Mangione at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pa., just two days earlier after a frenzied five-day, multistate manhunt for the 28-year-old suspect, who allegedly gunned down United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in cold blood on a Manhattan sidewalk.A few days after her Dec.
11 post, Green shared a list on her Threads profile titled, “Things that piss me off” — which included “United health care” and a video of her flipping off the company for not helping her connect easily with a primary-care physician.Twisted lefties have defended Mangione as a Robin Hood-esque folk hero who took on the health-care industry.Some local chapters of the Democratic Socialists of America — whose national organization endorsed George — have even not condemned the murder.Mangione goes on trial Sept.
8 for Thompson’s heinous slaying and faces up to life in prison if convicted.A DC Democratic insider said Green has been a “close confidant” to George and that the posts suggest “an implicit endorsement of all her most absurd and violent political beliefs,” since the staffer remains one of the most highly compensated on George’s campaign payroll.The newly revealed posts also are the latest indication of George’s far-left tendencies.Other Democratic sources have dished that her campaign has been “begging” for an endorsement from New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani — a nod that has yet to materialize.Green, a DC activist who founded the prison abolitionist nonprofit Harriet’s Wildest Dreams, previously helped campaign for George ...