The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2101 - Alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO Shooter CAPTURED…HERE’S WHAT WE KNOW
10 Dec 2024
Daniel Penny is acquitted in the death of Jordan Neely in New York; the alleged shooter of the UnitedHealthcare CEO is captured, and we examine what we know about him; and fallout in Syria continues. Click here to join the member-exclusive portion of my show: https://bit.ly/3WDjgHE Ep.2101 - - - DailyWire+: Finish your Christmas shopping with one click. Go to https://DailyWire.com now and give the gift of DailyWire+! Matt Walsh’s hit documentary “Am I Racist?” is NOW AVAILABLE on DailyWire+! Head to https://amiracist.com to become a member today! Get your Ben Shapiro merch here: https://bit.ly/3TAu2cw - - - Today's Sponsors: Birch Gold - Text "BEN" to 989898, or go to https://birchgold.com/ben, for your no-cost, no-obligation, FREE information kit. Kars4Kids - Donate your old car today at https://www.Kars4Kids.org/ben PreBorn! - Help save babies from abortion: https://www.preborn.com/Ben Roman - For treatment that works fast and lasts long, grab the moment. Learn more at https://www.Ro.co/Ben - - - Socials: Follow on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3cXUn53 Follow on Instagram: https://bit.ly/3QtuibJ Follow on Facebook: https://bit.ly/3TTirqd Subscribe on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3RPyBiB Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Folks, the alleged shooter of the UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan last week has now been arrested. He was arrested yesterday in Altoona, Pennsylvania. This apparently happened because somebody at a local McDonald's saw him and his picture had been plastered across the news and they recognized him. They called the police. The police showed up.
They searched him and they found a so-called ghost gun, a 3D printed gun. They found a bevy of fake IDs. He apparently also had a two-page manifesto on him that was radically anti-capitalist in nature. And it's sort of fascinating to get into who this person was. I want to get into that. I also want to get into the public response to him, which to me is far more disturbing.
And yes, I've seen the comments on my recent shows talking about how, believe it or not, it is very, very bad. It is, in fact, evil to shoot the UnitedHealthcare CEO, even if you are upset at the healthcare industry in the United States. The fact that this has to be said is sort of incredible. But it does have to be said. So let's start with what we know about the alleged shooter here.
His name is Luigi Mangione. And we have a policy on this show that we don't normally say the names of mass shooters. He is not a mass shooter. He's an individual murderer. And obviously, his name is plastered all over the news. So you've seen him and you know about his name. His name is Luigi Mangione. He is 26 years old.
We know that he had upon him a 262-word handwritten document, so presumably written at the last minute, in which he said that UnitedHealthcare's market capitalization, even though it has grown American life expectancy, has not. This is according to the UK Daily Mail. He condemned companies...
that, quote, continue to abuse our country for immense profit because the American public has allowed them to get away with it. Mangione then reportedly also added that he acted alone and that the entire effort was self-funded, saying, quote, to save you a lengthy investigation, I state plainly I wasn't working with anyone. These parasites had it coming.
I do apologize for any strife and trauma, but it had to be done. We'll get into that particular argument that it, quote, unquote, had to be done in a moment because one of the things about evil is that it tends to masquerade as good. Nothing in the American healthcare system changed because the UnitedHealthcare CEO was shot.
And in fact, one of the sort of outlying symptoms of evil is to use broad-based rationalizations about systemic problems in order to justify individual acts of evil, like murdering a father and CEO of a legal company.
That even if you don't like how the company runs, and I know a lot of doctors who don't like how UnitedHealthcare runs, they think UnitedHealthcare rips off customers and fights them at every turn. Whatever you think about UnitedHealthcare is irrelevant to the question of whether Brian Thompson should have been shot to death on the streets of New York. So more about the alleged shooter.
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