The exact motive for the December 4 killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson hasn’t been fully revealed. Even so, when arrested, the 26-year-old assassin had with him a “rambling handwritten manifesto” railing against the health care industry. After he got his back surgery, he went a little nuts, friends and family observe.
Surgery related motive
Though the motive is not official, it’s beginning to look like Luigi Mangione was upset over medical care denials. Probably related in some way to the recent back surgery he underwent. He’s not talking to police but relatives and friends are telling the press what they can.
Cops didn’t realize it but they were already looking for him before he murdered Brian Thompson. Luigi’s family had reported him as a missing person on November 18. They can close that file, now.
Democrats don’t want to admit it but Mangione appears to be one of their own. He got all the best progressive “Ivy League” indoctrination from University of Pennsylvania. Living an entitled and elite lifestyle, his social justice programming provided all the motive he needed. Luigi appears convinced that whacking the CEO of one megalithic insurance company would solve the world’s problems. That sort of thinking ignores the realities of the underlying issues.
The entire health care industry is flawed. Perhaps he thinks approvals would be speedier if the federal government issued the decisions. Under the liberal fantasy of “single payer” the most likely outcome is that nobody gets any treatment for anything. At least that’s fair, Democrats say.
Mangione’s family can’t speculate as to his motive but they were “devastated” by his arrest. None of them turned him in, even if those images on the TV did look a lot like Luigi.
Instead, an observant McDonald’s customer, hoping to score fat stacks in reward cash, turned him in. Altoona police nabbed him still holding his hash browns. When they asked “if he had been to New York recently,” he “started to shake.”
Several fake IDs
Even though Mangione had “several” fake ID’s in his possession, he handed cops the one which matched up with the hotel he stayed at in New York. The police would have made the connection anyway.
They called him a “person of interest” even though he had a “ghost gun” with matching silencer on him. He also held clues to his motive in the form of “a rambling handwritten manifesto.” He may have planned more killings because he wrote, “these parasites had it coming.”
He also used the plural when he wrote “I do apologize for any strife of traumas but it had to be done.”
Setting aside the question of motive because the suspect was keeping his lips glued shut, the Altoona PD only charged him with the weapons and forgery charges. They’re letting New York charge him with the murder.
It’s not clear how or why he got from Hawaii to San Francisco but he was reported missing from a “home” there. That might also have something to do with the surgery which likely forms the basis of his motive. A former friend in Baltimore notes “he believed he went dark after undergoing back surgery several months prior.”
A “friend and former roommate in Hawaii” relates they “had previously spoken of his back issues.” After he had the surgery, Luigi sent the former roommate some X-ray snapshots. “It looked heinous, with just giant screws going into his spine.” Maybe they didn’t give him enough pain meds.
