Bernie Sanders: Insurance CEO Murdered Because Of 'Anger' At Company's Profits

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) drew backlash online over remarks he made over 
the weekend about the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Sanders made the remarks during a Sunday NBC News interview with Kristen 
Welker on “Meet The Press” when asked about remarks from Sen. Elizabeth 
Warren (D-MA), who responded to the assassination by saying “you can only 
push people so far and then they start to take matters into their own 
hands.”

“Is this the right time in the wake of this horrific murder to be talking 
about health care policy?” Welker asked.

“Elizabeth Warren obviously understands killing and murder and shooting 
somebody in the back is totally unacceptable,” he said. “But what I think 
has happened in the last few months is that what you have seen rising up 
is people’s anger at a health insurance industry which denies people the 
health care that they desperately need while they make billions and 
billions of dollars in profit.”

“So, killing anybody, shooting somebody in the back who was the father of 
two, is outrageous. And it’s unacceptable. Nobody, nobody should applaud 
it,” he continued. “I know Senator Warren did not. But I think what we 
need to ask ourselves when we talk about health care, is why we are the 
only major country on Earth not to guarantee health care to all people, 
why we have a life expectancy which is significantly lower than in other 
countries, why working-class people die five to 10 years shorter than the 
people on top?”

He said that he felt “very strongly about this” and that it was “long 
overdue for us to guarantee health care to every man, woman and child, 
especially at a time when we’re spending twice as much per capita on 
health care as the people of every other nation.”

“The goal of health care is not to make drug companies and insurance 
companies phenomenally rich, it is to guarantee quality care to all of our 
people,” he added.

Republican strategist Matt Whitlock fired back on X: “The shooter had 
severe mental health issues — he was practically foaming at the mouth 
screaming at the courthouse.”

“That won’t stop Democrats from trying to use him to make a point,” he 
added.

Pradheep J. Shanker, M.D., responded to the clip by highlighting the far-
left extremist who shot up a congressional baseball practice in 2017.

“Remember that it was Bernie’s rhetoric that helped motivate the 
Congressional baseball shooter,” he wrote. “He still has learned nothing.”

Republican strategist Steve Guest said that Sanders’ remarks were part of 
a pattern of top Democrats “justifying murder.”

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