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Chapter 1: What shocking event occurred involving the CEO of UnitedHealth?
Well, folks, there was a shocking assassination on Wednesday in New York City. We're going to get into all the details and the left's bizarre response to this particular assassination. First, if you have not yet heard, Daily Wire Plus is 50% off right now. It's our best deal of the year. That is one full year of uncensored shows, exclusive series, documentaries, and more. Don't wait.
This deal ends soon. Head on over to dailywire.com slash cyberweek and join the fight today. So On Wednesday, the chief executive of UnitedHealth's insurance arm, according to the Wall Street Journal, was fatally shot outside a hotel in New York City. It was a targeted attack, according to the police. There is, in fact, video of the attack.
We're not going to show it here on the show because it's fairly graphic. This obviously appears to be a professional hit. The person who was killed, again, his name was Brian Thompson, who's the CEO of UnitedHealth. He is walking past the shooter. The shooter seems to emerge from the shadows, shoots him, shoots him again, calmly, walks by him and appears to shoot him a third time.
The suspect has not yet been identified, fled on foot after the shooting outside a Hilton Hotel in Midtown Manhattan around 6.45 a.m. Apparently, the suspect rode an e-bike to Central Park, and that's the last place that the suspect was seen. Police said that this was obviously a planned attack. They don't actually know why.
Here is Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch explaining this was not, in fact, a random act of violence.
This does not appear to be a random act of violence. The victim was in New York City to speak at an investor conference. It appears the suspect was lying in wait for several minutes. And as the victim was walking to the conference hotel, the suspect approached from behind and fired several rounds, striking the victim at least once in the back and at least once in the right calf.
I want to be clear. At this time, every indication is that this was a premeditated, preplanned, targeted attack.
And clearly it wasn't a robbery because the guy didn't even rifle the body. Apparently the gun jammed. You can actually see this happen in the video. The gun jams during the attack and the shooter then proceeds to rack the slide in order to clear the jams. This is somebody who knew what they were doing, at least on a very basic level.
And apparently if you just get away with it, then, you know, this person had this planned out pretty well. Apparently Paulette Thompson, his wife, told NBC News there had been some threats against Brian Thompson. She said, basically, I don't know, lack of coverage. I don't know details. I know that he said there were people that had been threatening
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Chapter 2: What details are known about the assassination of Brian Thompson?
So this, of course, is crazy, and it's precisely this kind of approach to law enforcement in which a person who robs an 86-year-old, 87-year-old man, and the 86-year-old, 87-year-old man is knocked to the ground and dies. The person who does that is given a light sentence by a prosecutor, but a person who's defending the public from an actual criminal is charged with manslaughter in New York City.
That's just another reason why violence is being propagated to an extraordinary extent in New York City these days. And not a shock, by the way, in terms of updates on the Daniel Penny case, jurors have been in deliberations for a couple of days.
At this point, they've asked to rehear a couple of pieces of evidence in that case, including testimony given by the medical examiner who suggested that no matter how much fentanyl had been found in Jordan Neely's system, she still would have blamed Daniel Penny for the death of Jordan Neely. So we'll see how the jury comes down in that case.
But this is just another reason why, again, violence has become relatively commonplace in New York City. But there's something else that's going on here too. And that is the left-wing reaction to the murder of Brian Thompson. So there's a person whose name is Anthony Zankis. Anthony Zankis is apparently a professor at Columbia, Anthony Zankis.
And this person, again, amazing, this person teaches at Columbia, and calls himself a trauma expert, anti-violence, commie. This is in his description. A communist who's against violence. He put out a tweet saying, quote, today we mourn the death of UnitedHealthcare CEO, Brian Thompson. Gunned down. Wait, I'm sorry.
Today we mourn the death of the 68,000 Americans who needlessly die each year so that insurance company executives like Brian Thompson can become multimillionaires. So that would be basically he deserved to die because UnitedHealthcare is a mildly profitable company.
When I say they're a mildly profitable company, I mean that when it comes to the health insurance industry, the profit margin is generally below 2%. You're not talking about industries where the profit margin is 10, 15, 20%. You have a lot of problems with American health insurance and how that is run. That is because of the legal structure that has been set up for health insurance in America.
And we can talk about all the fixes that need to happen, how the truth is that health insurance should not be tied to employment. about the fact that you should be able to opt into various levels of health insurance rather than basically being shoveled into one of a few categories.
We could talk about the fact that an enormous amount of health care should actually be provided just on a pay-for-play basis as opposed to via insurance. It's bizarre that in order to, for example, just go get a normal checkup, that should be covered by insurance. What are you insuring against? That's typically not what insurance is for.
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Chapter 3: What was the police's assessment of the assassination?
They might give a preemptive blanket pardon for all possible crimes on the federal level to Senator-elect Adam Schiff from California, as well as former GOP Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming. Others mentioned include Anthony Fauci, who almost certainly committed perjury with regard to gain-of-function research before the United States Senate.
Apparently, the West Wing deliberations have been organized by White House counsel Ed Siskel, but include a range of other aides, including Chief of Staff Jeff Zients. The president himself has not been brought into the broader pardon discussions that I love that Joe Biden is so out of it. He is so not part of this conversation.
He's not even a part of the conversation about what kind of pardons he should be issuing. But make no mistake, this is Democrats changing the rules of the game yet again. They changed the rules of the game to let Hunter Biden off the hook for everything and anything. And now they want to change the rules of the game so as to issue preemptive blanket pardons to all of their friends and allies.
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