• Luigi Mangione, a 26-year-old tech worker, was charged with the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
  • The University of Pennsylvania graduate reportedly stopped speaking with friends and family after back surgery last year.
  • Deleted social media posts show skepticism toward doctors, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden, and support for RFK Jr.

Luigi Mangione, the man charged with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, seemingly supported Robert F. Kennedy Jr., appeared to harbor frustrations with the medical field, and expressed skepticism toward both Donald Trump and Joe Biden, deleted posts on X show.

Mangione, a 26-year-old software developer who reportedly fell out of touch with friends and family after back surgery last year, reposted Edward Snowden's suggestion that Democrats should nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for president following Joe Biden's disastrous debate performance in June.

The deleted posts, which Business Insider viewed on Archive.org, are among the most recent online clues about Mangione found so far.

Mangione has been described as both an "anti-capitalist" and a member of the "online right." His deleted posts support the idea that his worldview was influenced by reactionary right-wing thinkers.

In another deleted post from May, Mangione reposted another user's skepticism of doctors, adding detail to reports about Mangione's dissatisfaction with the US healthcare system. A former roommate from Hawaii told the Honolulu Civil Beat that Mangione had chronic back pain.

"My experience with the medical profession — and yours is probably similar — is that doctors are basically worthless unless you carefully manage them, and 2/3 of them are worthless even in that case," the post said.

The author of the original post, Zero HP Lovecraft, calls himself a "fascist hipster." His Substack shows he submitted a short story for the Passage Prize, an award run by a publisher known for publishing reactionary and fascist authors.

Mangione also castigated "both parties" in a reply to writer Nate Silver.

"Both parties - Trump with his refusal to accept the results of an election, and Biden with his refusal to accept his age and step down - are simultaneously proving how desperately individuals will cling to power," Mangione posted. He also referred to term limits as "critical."

In June, he reposted a suggestion by Richard Hanania, an author critical of "wokeness," that Trump thought Christians were delusional.

In July, Mangione also reposted a description of Project 2025, a roadmap for Trump's second term developed by the right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation, as "qanon but for redditors."

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