‘Using Murder As A Call For Action’: Dem Senator Ripped For Comments On UnitedHealthcare CEO Murder

Leftist Connecticut Democrat Sen. Chris Murphy was harshly criticized after he insisted in the wake of the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, “Murder isn’t justified. It isn’t,” then followed with, “but…”

Murphy, who mocked President-elect Donald Trump over the summer as “ridiculous” and “reckless” during the presidential campaign, released a video on Sunday in which he demagogued the issue of violence against the heads of insurance companies.

“Listen, I think that political leaders in this country need to be part of this conversation that’s happening all over the country in the wake of the shooting of the United Healthcare CEO,” he declared. Then, patting himself on the back, he continued. “I know that it’s fraught; I know that it’s uncomfortable, but this is really important.”

“Listen, I’m never going to condone violence; I don’t here,” he stated. “I spend my entire life fighting gun violence because I know that the devastation is enormous that it leaves behind. What I see happening in this country, though, is a real visceral anger, that the outrage at Brian Thompson’s death, or the outrage at the death of any powerful person, isn’t matched by the anger over the thousands of people who die often anonymous deaths every single day in this country at the hands of a healthcare industry that mostly doesn’t give a sh** about people, and only care about profits.”

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“Ordinary people in this country are not indifferent to the loss of life but these companies are,” he insisted before vilifying insurance companies. “Why do I know this? Why do millions of Americans know this? Because the business model of the healthcare industry is to deny care, necessary medical care, to people who need it, and force them into bankruptcy or worse, let them die in order to grow profit. There are a ton of good people in the healthcare industry: nurses, doctors. But that’s an immoral system.”

Then he launched into his diatribe: “Watching people die, ruining families financially to pad profits and make money for the people who run the biggest companies? Murder is never justified. It isn’t. But if this country’s leaders don’t pay attention to the conversation that’s happening right now, this weekend, that is a mistake.”

“People in America today feel ignored, they feel scared, they feel alone in a system that intentionally grinds them down. A system where profit matters more than life. My colleagues need to listen, and we need to do something about it,” he concluded.

I know it’s uncomfortable for political leaders to wade into the conversation that’s happening in this country in the aftermath of the murder of the United Health CEO. But we need to listen to what people are feeling. And act. pic.twitter.com/V3WwRV74Fo

— Chris Murphy ???? (@ChrisMurphyCT) December 15, 2024

Social media ripped into Murphy:

Maybe you should stop following the people cheering on execution on BlueSky.

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) December 15, 2024

Holy crap. This is a senator essentially justifying murder. https://t.co/MmKNSvZhBy

— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) December 16, 2024

Delete this. Using murder as a call for action is an implicit call for violence that will boomerang. ????. This isn’t okay.

I fight like hell to fix our healthcare system which is broken thanks to the straitjacket of insane govt regulations and cronyism. But this is messed up.

— Joe Lonsdale (@JTLonsdale) December 16, 2024

The pro murder bloc expands. https://t.co/kkUKmXgP5u

— Marc Andreessen ???????? (@pmarca) December 16, 2024

The lack of self-awareness in this is astonishing.

The government is a terrible, inefficient dumpster that constantly harms people. Would Chris be cool with his logic being applied to himself? https://t.co/MmKNSvZhBy

— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) December 16, 2024

Last summer, Murphy predicted, “Biden is going to crush Trump in Connecticut because most Republicans in Connecticut cannot stand Trump. You look where Biden does the best in Connecticut, and it’s often in places where the Republicans just a generation ago would clean up. I think Biden is going to win by 20-plus points in Connecticut. Trump is more ridiculous, more reckless, and more dangerous today than he was four years ago, and I think people in Connecticut know that.”

Vice President Kamala Harris won Connecticut by 14.5 points.

Murphy has also called illegal immigrants the “people we care about most, the undocumented Americans that are in this country,”