Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), is the latest high-profile person on the left to seemingly justify the cold-blooded murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.Speaking to Joy Reid on MSNBC, Warren condemned the killing and then added, “but people can be pushed only so far.”That’s a really big “but.”FOX News reported:
Elizabeth Warren says killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO was a warning: ‘You can only push people so far’Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said in interviews this week that the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was wrong but also served as a “warning” of sorts that “you can only push people so far.””We’ll say it over and over,” Warren said on MSNBC. “Violence is never the answer. This guy [Luigi Mangione] gets a trial who’s allegedly killed the CEO of UnitedHealth[care], but you can only push people so far, and then they start to take matters into their own hands.”Mangione was arrested Monday after a manhunt and charged with Thompson’s murder, which was committed outside a hotel in Manhattan last week. Mangione has become a folk hero to some far-left figures who feel Thompson’s death is comeuppance for health insurance providers like UnitedHealthcare that deny coverage or charge exorbitant premiums.
Here’s the clip:
This segment came up when Professor Jacobson appeared on the Laura Ingraham show earlier this week (video at the link):
Ingraham: well—just what happened to him, period. He did spend six years there. It’s not that much time; he graduated in 2016 from high school. So he was there when the cauldron was clearly brewing. But here’s what Senator Elizabeth Warren took away from all of this:
“Look, we’ll say it over and over—violence is never the answer. This guy gets a trial who’s allegedly killed the CEO of UnitedHealth, but you can only push people so far, and then they start to take matters into their own hands.”
They weren’t saying that on January 6. They never say that when a pro-life protester protests outside of an abortion clinic. They think it’s fine to arrest those people, as we see happening all over the Western world.
WAJ: How was it that he couldn’t be pushed any further? When you get somebody from that background—and a lot of domestic terrorists in our history have been from privileged backgrounds, like the Weather Underground people—if you’re going to have the Elizabeth Warren attitude that you’re entitled to do whatever you need to do by any means necessary because you’ve been pushed too far in your own lived experience, that’s a recipe for disaster. Unfortunately, it’s a recipe that is prevalent on a lot of campuses.
Warren tried to walk back her comments in a piece at the HuffPost:
“Violence is never the answer, but people can be pushed only so far,” Warren added. “This is a warning that if you push people hard enough, they lose faith in the ability of their government to make change, lose faith in the ability of the people who are providing the health care to make change, and start to take matters into their own hands in ways that will ultimately be a threat to everyone.”After drawing some criticism for her remarks, Warren clarified her comments in a statement provided to HuffPost on Wednesday.“Violence is never the answer. Period,” the senator said. “I should have been much clearer that there is never a justification for murder.”
Nice try.
Will the media now shove a microphone into the face of every living Democrat official and ask them if they agree with Warren’s comments, like they would if she were a Republican?
Just kidding. We all know that they won’t.
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