Rachel Maddow was criticized for finding a suspicious link between the alleged killer of healthcare CEO Luigi Mangione and Donald Trump.
Mangione, 26, was taken into custody Monday afternoon on gun charges at the fast-food restaurant in Altoona, Pennsylvania, five days after he allegedly shot and killed 50-year-old UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a Manhattan hotel.
Maddow, who appeared once a week on the struggling liberal network, inexplicably drew points between Mangione and Trump’s rumors for the new ATF director, Blake Masters.
“If it is him (Mangione), the fact that he is a claimed Unabomber fan is disturbing. I might note that it is even more disturbing that Donald Trump’s reported choice to lead the ATF is also a self-proclaimed fan of the Unabomber,” she said.
The clip was initially posted on social media by left-wing journalist Ken Klippenstein, who laughed derisively when Maddow made the connection.
Social media was equally cruel regardless of political ideology.
“What a weak, unhinged loser she is,” one commenter wrote.
“Everything leads back to him in her mind,” another added, referring to Trump’s rent-free presence in Maddow’s mind.
Rachel Maddow was criticized for finding a suspicious link between alleged killer of healthcare CEO Luigi Mangione and Donald Trump
Another commenter wrote: ‘SHE NEEDS TO GO! When are the Democrats going to learn: no, Trump is not to blame for everything, including the weather! I hope the network will trash this lying piece of yes!’
“Maddow has become a total laughingstock, along with much of the traditional media that just can’t seem to accept that people no longer care what they say because they’ve been caught in so many lies,” Lester Dunham wrote.
Masters has spoken to many who worked closely with the transition team and even had Matt Gaetz, Donald Trump’s attorney general, lobby for his appointment to the Justice Department agency.
Masters initially wanted the White House staff position, a person close to the transition effort claims. But the role was filled by Sergio Gor.
In 2022, an interviewer asked Masters to choose a “subversive thinker” people should know more about.
Masters thought about it and came up with a risky response for someone running for elected office.
He chose the Unabomber in an attempt to appeal to Trump’s love with controversial statements.
“If I say this, I’ll probably get in trouble,” Masters responded. “How about Theodore Kaczynski, for example?”
Maddow, who appeared once a week on the struggling liberal network, inexplicably drew points between Mangione and Trump’s rumors for the new ATF director, Blake Masters.
In 2022, an interviewer asked Masters to choose a “subversive thinker” people should know more about. Masters thought about it and came up with a risky response for someone running for elected office. He chose the Unabomber in an attempt to appeal to Trump
Masters was careful to point out that he did not condone the bombings that killed three people and injured dozens between 1978 and 1995 and terrorized the nation until Kaczynski’s arrest in 1996.
It has since been alleged that Mangione had a manifesto against UnitedHealthcare after suffering a debilitating back injury that required painful spine surgery.
At a news conference, NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said Mangione had a three-page handwritten document showing “ill will toward corporate America.”
A law enforcement official who was not authorized to publicly discuss the investigation and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity said the document included a sentence in which Mangione claimed to have acted alone.
“I’ll keep it short for the FBI because I respect what you do for our country. To spare you a lengthy investigation, I clearly state that I have not collaborated with anyone,” the official said in the document.
It also included a sentence that said, “I apologize for any conflict or trauma, but it had to be done.” Honestly, these parasites just got it.”
He made his first court appearance after he was charged with murder on Tuesday – pouting as he was escorted out of the hearing after having a savage public meltdown hours earlier.
The orange jumpsuit-clad suspect had to be restrained as he shouted at police as he entered the courtroom in Altoona, Pennsylvania. Mangione was arrested Monday at a McDonald’s in Altoona.
Mangione, 26, was taken into custody Monday afternoon on gun charges at the fast-food restaurant in Altoona, Pennsylvania, five days after he allegedly shot and killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Thompson, 50, outside a Manhattan hotel.
Thomas Dickey, Mangione’s attorney, said Tuesday night that his client will also plead not guilty to the gun possession charges he faces in Pennsylvania.
The wealthy CEO was in the Big Apple to host UnitedHealthcare’s annual investor meeting, where he would explain the insurance company’s huge profits for the year.
Surveillance camera footage showed him walking outside a Hilton hotel in downtown Manhattan when he was shot by three bullets at close range.
It was later discovered that the shell casings had the words “deny,” “defend,” and “deposit” written on them, in an apparent attack on the practice of health insurance.
It is assumed Mangione was angry about the way health insurers treated a sick family member, the newspaper said New York Post.
No further details about that family member or their identity have been shared, although online obituaries show Mangione lost a grandmother in 2013 and a grandfather in 2017.
His X account also contains an X-ray of a complicated neck operation.
The former valedictorian was also in possession of a 3D printed pistol and a black silencer, with police noting the pistol was loaded with one Glock magazine containing six 9mm all-metal jacketed bullets.
Luigi Mangione, 26, was taken into custody Monday afternoon on gun charges
A loose 9mm hollow point bullet was also found.
Altoona Police Department officers remained stationed at the restaurant Monday evening as surveillance footage captured the moment Mangione was arrested.
Authorities later confirmed that Mangione got off a Greyhound bus across from the McDonald’s around 9 a.m. Monday morning after leading NYPD officers on a cross-country chase.
Staff at nearby restaurants say they were unaware that the killer had been apprehended just meters from their doors, and simply remembered that local police cars had been in the area.
Agents now believe Mangione had been in Pennsylvania for several days after Thompson’s December 4 killing, and may have previously spent time in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. according to the New York Times.
“We have an idea of how he got from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh, but there are some gaps in time,” Lt. Col. George Bivens said.
“And before we start putting together a timeline of his travels, we need to go through all that first.”
Mangione is now due back in court for a preliminary hearing on December 23.