Commenting on Luigi Mangione's accept of climate-change causes, Cruz states assistance from “leftists” has actually been “ill”
Released December 9, 2024 6:18 PM (EST)
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) shows up for a vote on the Senate side of the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, April 18, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura/ Los Angeles Times by means of Getty Images)
In action to the news on Monday that authorities in Pennsylvania collared 26-year-old Luigi Mangione, the prime suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is utilizing him as an example of “leftist” views being a mental disorder.
In a post to X made soon after Mangione was determined, Cruz shared a post by the New York Post and composed, “Leftism is a psychological illness. The believed killer, an Ivy League graduate, ‘registered for anti-capitalist and climate-change causes, according to police.' And the killer has actually been commonly commemorated by leftists online. Awful & & ill.”
In the wake of Mangione's arrest in Altoona, Pa., a rush of info on the suspect's background has actually been distributing online, with The New York Times reporting that he went to high school at the Gilman School in Baltimore, where he was a professional athlete and the valedictorian of his finishing class in 2016, talking explaining his class as “creating originalities and challenging the world around it.”
With the only previous criminal activity connected to Mangione being a citation for trespassing in Hawaii, the suspect's online existence reveals a split in his course, with a Goodreads evaluation he left on Ted Kaczynski's manifesto describing the Unabomber as an “severe political revolutionary,” and buddies and liked ones revealing issue for him on social networks a month prior to the shooting of Thompson, according to The Daily Beast.
None of this, nevertheless, supports Cruz's declaration.
“Person of Interest in the UHC CEO eliminating Luigi Mangione is being painted as left-wing by the New York Post however his X account reveals somebody whose thinking is formed by the Online Right,” composes reporter Ari Drennen in a post to X.
