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Meet the Mangione Press Corps Ashley Rojas, Abril Rios, and Lena Weissbrot, self-described “Mangionistas,” speak as advocates for Luigi Mangione. (Lone Pine Press) They include a ‘Hot Girls for Zohran’ influencer and a Fulbright scholar turned sex video game creator. By Olivia Reingold | RUTHFULLY YOURS Subscribe RUTHFULLY YOURS THE RIGHT NEWS, FRONT AND CENTER Meet the Mangione Press Corps Ashley Rojas, Abril Rios, and Lena Weissbrot, self-described “Mangionistas,” speak as advocates for Luigi Mangione. (Lone Pine Press) They include a ‘Hot Girls for Zohran’ influencer and a Fulbright scholar turned sex video game creator. By Olivia Reingold Posted By Ruth King on May 20th, 2026 https://www.thefp.com/p/mangione-press-corps-controversy?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email On Monday, report

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Meet the Mangione Press Corps Ashley Rojas, Abril Rios, and Lena Weissbrot, self-described “Mangionistas,” speak as advocates for Luigi Mangione. (Lone Pine Press) They include a ‘Hot Girls for Zohran’ influencer and a Fulbright scholar turned sex video game creator. By Olivia Reingold | RUTHFULLY YOURS Subscribe RUTHFULLY YOURS THE RIGHT NEWS, FRONT AND CENTER Meet the Mangione Press Corps Ashley Rojas, Abril Rios, and Lena Weissbrot, self-described “Mangionistas,” speak as advocates for Luigi Mangione. (Lone Pine Press) They include a ‘Hot Girls for Zohran’ influencer and a Fulbright scholar turned sex video game creator. By Olivia Reingold Posted By Ruth King on May 20th, 2026 https://www.thefp.com/p/mangione-press-corps-controversy?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email On Monday, reporters lingered outside a courthouse in downtown Manhattan, waiting to see whether Luigi Mangione’s defense team would address the public after the alleged killer’s latest hearing. Two young women wearing city-issued press passes around their necks were saying things that reporters hardly ever say. “I’m standing on business, fuck Brian Thompson,” one of the women said about the CEO of UnitedHealthcare who was gunned down in cold blood outside a hotel in midtown Manhattan in December 2024. The woman slapped a paper fan in her palm for emphasis, then added: “I don’t give a flying fuck he died.” A video of that comment posted by a New York Daily News reporter on X has been viewed 3.8 million times . You could see their press credentials, which said: “Press Identification City of New York.” Just moments earlier, the same woman said that she and her two friends were part of a group called “ The Mangionistas .” “We’re essentially here to be Luigi Mangione’s advocate as well as bring, um, social issues to light,” she said, her lips shiny with lip gloss. Molly Crane-Newman @molcranenewman “I’m saying fuck Brian Thompson. I don’t give a flying fuck he died,” says Ashley Rojas, wearing her press badge provided by @NYCMayorsOffice . Lena Weissbrot adds that Thompson’s teenage sons “are better off without him” Mangione has attracted frenzied fans ever since he was arrested five days after Thompson’s killing in a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, with a red notebook that prosecutors have called a “manifesto.” Those fans—mostly fangirls—have praised the Ivy League-educated Mangione for his good looks and called him a progressive American hero . They have waited in subzero temperatures outside the courthouse just for a glimpse of the back of his head coming or going. They formed a Discord community, now with about 580 members, where they share advice on how to avoid surveillance cameras and maintain anonymity during protests. Mangione’s supporters have even raised over $1.5 million for his defense , often $5 and $10 at a time, accompanied by messages like “stay strong angel boy” and “you are my hero.” Press passes of two of the women praising the suspected murderer outside the

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