Yesterday’s news became a media maelstrom after the brutual, filmed assassination of an elite healthcare executive. You can’t imagine the astonishingly ironic pandemic connection. The New York Post ran the dramatic story last night headlined, “
UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s assassin may have left message on bullets used in murder: sources.” The Post wouldn’t say what three words appeared on three bullet casings, but fortunately ABC ran that story before the news embargo started.
You’ve probably already heard about this shocking crime story, which dominated yesterday afternoon’s news cycle and most of social media. The short version is, Health insurance giant UnitedHealthcare’s Chief Executive Officer, Brian Thompson, 50, was assassinated right outside the New York City Hilton around 6am yesterday morning. The whole thing was captured on the hotel’s security camera, and the video leaked even faster than the shell casing story.
The masked shooter, who during the killing calmly and coolly cleared his jammed gun
three times before finishing the job, casually mounted a strategically placed, city-provided electric scooter and scooted to Central Park, where the trail went cold. Progressives applauded the gunman’s choice of an environmentally friendly getaway vehicle and invited the killer to emcee next year’s Oscars.
Seriously, the scooter was a smart choice; fast enough to evade cops chasing him on foot and agile enough to weave through Manhattan traffic and use sidewalks, evading vehicular pursuit.
Demonstrating even more environmental sensitivity, the killer kindly left behind in a nearby trash can a Starbucks coffee cup (empty) and a water bottle (empty). So there’s plenty of evidence. Let’s see how long it takes them to arrest someone. More on that in a minute.
Social media is flooding with analyses of every bit of evidence and with theories about the motive for what looks like a professional hit, sort of, though the evidence is mixed on that point. There are several suggestive facts. First, United was being probed by the DOJ for antitrust violations and for insider trading, with
company officers (including Thompson) having dumped United shares without disclosing the DOJ investigation to shareholders, who could be grumpy. Next, the insurer boasts the highest claims denial rate of any health insurer. Thompson’s widow said he regularly got death threats from people whose claims were denied, who are probably even more grumpy.
Next, in March, United found itself suqarely in Biden’s crosshairs, after a cyberattack gummed up United’s operations. The
White House said the short delay in processing provider payments had “destabilized the nation’s healthcare system:”
The chance of destabilizing the entire healthcare system shows the risks of concentrating so much of the Medicare business in one company. Single-payor proponents should take note.
Chillingly, the company’s stock price aberrantly
increased after its CEO was killed, suggesting who knows what? Conspiracies. Big money.
Who-Killed-JR-style drama.
Nobody knows. All we can say right now is there’s
plenty of drama for the inevitable daytime miniseries, though probably not on Hallmark.
We discuss how the dramatic UnitedHealthcare CEO's assassination is profoundly, indisputably, and mind-blowingly linked to the public health establishment's pandemic policies.
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