Gregg Jarrett Spots ‘Red Flag’ In Alleged CEO Assassin’s Reaction, Predicts Their Potential ‘First Move’

Legal analyst Gregg Jarrett called out the UnitedHealthcare CEO’s alleged assassin’s outburst as a “red flag” Tuesday on Fox Business, predicting that the defense’s first legal “move” could be to have his mental health evaluated.

Luigi Mangione, 26, a native of Maryland, was seen yelling at reporters Tuesday afternoon while appearing for his extradition process in Pennsylvania, shouting, “This is clearly an injustice and an insult to the intelligence of the American people.” On “The Bottom Line,” Jarrett stated that the outburst not only signaled a need for a mental health evaluation but also suggested that Mangione’s attorney could later push for an “insanity defense” if an illness is found.

“Well, the outburst itself, Tammy, raises, to me as a former trial attorney for the defense, a red flag. I’m sure the first move that the defense will do is to have him evaluated by a psychiatrist to determine whether or not he suffers from any mental disease or defect so severe that he doesn’t know right from wrong, which is, of course, the famous insanity defense. Or they may try something shy of that called diminished capacity,” Jarret said.

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“But you look at this guy, at some point in time, he became self-radicalized and a fan of the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, apparently quoting at one point from Kaczynski, which is a false quote, that violence is not terrorism, it’s revolution and war. That was not in the Unabomber’s manifesto. So, you know, I look at this guy, I’m not trying to make any excuses for him, but I’m telling you what the defense will do,” Jarrett said. “They’re going to say something is terribly wrong with him, and then they’re going to find experts who will say exactly the same thing.”

After a nearly week-long manhunt, Mangione was arrested