Ted Cruz unleashes on The View hosts and Taylor Lorenzs response to UnitedHealthcare CEO murder
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Sen. Ted Cruz is furious at liberals who are celebrating the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
The Texas Senator said that the host of ABCs The View are denying reality.
And he said that independent liberal journalist Taylor Lorenz made sick and twisted comments regarding Thompsons death.
Public response to the murder was very split, with some claiming it goes to show the problem with health care in the U.S., while critics are outraged over the targeted attack. Reaction from some far-left factions is downright gleeful.
Luigi Mangione, 26, is charged with killing Thompson in a shooting in Manhattan last week.
He was captured after a five-day manhunt led authorities to Altoona, Pennsylvania, where Mangione was identified by a worker at a McDonalds.
His short manifesto, found in his backpack at time of arrest on Monday, was a clear referendum on the U.S. healthcare system – and specifically UnitedHealthcare.
The hosts of The View are just denying reality, Cruz said. Every word that just came out of Joys mouth is complete nonsense, it is babbling idiocy.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) tore into liberal media personalities for their response to the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson
The View co-host Joy Behar replied to his response with: Of course, Ted Cruz has to politicize it and say its a left wing thing.
On his podcast episode on Wednesday, he unleashed on Behar.
Lets go to some of our favorite people, Cruz said on his podcast The Verdict. The always charming and wonderful and reasonable hosts of The View – they were very unhappy.
They were very unhappy today because I called out the extremists left for their violence and their willingness to engage in assassinations and to try to assassinate, to assassinate this CEO, to try to assassinate Donald Trump, he said.
He also went after co-host Whoppi Goldberg, saying: You want to talk about violence, Im willing to say, put anyone in jail who commits active violence. Are you?
And I asked on that show, what about the Black Lives Matter and Antifa riots all over the country in 2020 that burned American cities across the country, Cruz recalled.
And Whoopi Goldberg looked at me and said, I dont know what an Antifa riot is. Like, theyre literally living in an alternative reality where they just erase the embrace of violence on the left.
But he was obviously more enraged over Lorenzs comments claiming she felt joy over Thompsons murder.
Taylor Lorenzs comments there are sick and twisted and she should be treated as a deranged lunatic, because she is, Cruz said on his Wednesday podcast episode.
He went on: She is openly celebrating, she feels joy at someone – someone shes never met – being murdered. Why? Because she hates all health insurance companies. She hates, you know what? Shes another anti-capitalist nut job.
Conservatives were confused by the almost celebratory reaction from liberals over the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson (pictured)
Journalist Taylor Lorenz defended her joy over the referendum on U.S. healthcare after the death of the UnitedHealthcare CEO
On his podcast on Wednesday, Cruz unleashed on The View co-host Jot Behar: Lets go to some of our favorite people. The always charming and wonderful and reasonable hosts of The View... They were very unhappy today because I called out the extremists left for their violence and their willingness to engage in assassinations
Let me be clear, murder is wrong. Period. The end, the Texas senator said. Regardless of your politics, regardless of whether I agree with you or disagree with you, nobody should be subject to violence.
Its wrong whether I agree with you or disagree with you, Cruz said. Anyone who committed an act of violence, anyone who has assaulted a police officer, they should be prosecuted.
Conservatives are perplexed by the public reaction to the murder of Thompson.
Many are taking to social media to praise the targeting of the UnitedHealthcare CEO because they feel it shows displeasure with the way the U.S. health care system works.
Lorenz was among those to show no remorse over Thompsons death.
She went on Piers Morgan Uncensored on Monday to defend her controversial social media posts celebrating the murder.
Why would you be in such a celebratory mood about the execution of another human being? Morgan asks. Arent you supposed to be on the caring, sharing left where, you know, you believe in the sanctity of life?
Luigi Mangione, 26, was arrested in Pennsylvania this week and is charged with murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan last week
Lorenz responded that since she believes in the sanctity of life its the reason why I felt, along with so many other Americans, joy, unfortunately.
Morgans jaw drops at the unexpected response, before he hits back: Joy!? Serious? Joy at a mans execution?
Lorenz then attempts to backtrack, telling Morgan, Maybe not joy, but certainly not empathy.
Later, Lorenz took to X to say she never claimed to feel joy over the assassination of Thompson.
The CEO was a murderer and I do not feel sadness over his death, she wrote. But the media would rather misrepresent my very clear words and foment outrage than engage with the fact that many of us ARE OVERJOYED that these millionaire pundits are forced to acknowledge Americans suffering.
