President-elect Donald Trump’s rent-free occupancy in Rachel Maddow’s mind had her contorting a connection between the GOP leader and a suspected murderer — through the Unabomber.
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Amid the swooning and the celebration from a considerable number of radicals enamored with the murder of a father and husband because he led a health insurance company, an inevitable tie-in to the president-elect came the same day as the suspect was taken into custody for allegedly killing United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
Arrested at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania Monday, corporate and social media was quickly abuzz with details about Luigi Mangione, fleshing out more information on the man in a day’s time than had seemingly been revealed about Trump’s wannabe assassin in nearly five months.
Among those details was expressed favor for the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, prompting the host of “The Rachel Maddow Show” to draw a comparison to the Trump-favoring failed Senate and House candidate from Arizona, Blake Masters.
“If it is him,” Maddow had said of Mangione, “the fact that he’s a professed Unabomber fan is unsettling. I might mention that it’s even more unsettling that Donald Trump’s reported choice to run the ATF is also a self-professed fan of the Unabomber.”
She then proceeded to play a clip from Masters during a podcast interview in 2022 where he had been asked to name a “subversive thinker” who was underrated, to which he responded Kaczynski’s writings had “a lot of insight there that is correct” while making certain to denounce the terrorist’s actions.
Where Mangione was concerned, he had posted to the book review site Goodreads, “It’s easy to quickly and thoughtless [sic] write this off as the manifesto of a lunatic, in order to avoid facing some of the uncomfortable problems it identifies. But it’s simply impossible to ignore how prescient many of his predictions about modern society turned out.”
A document attributed to Mangione and referred to as a “claim of responsibility” by the police included consideration of the use of a bomb on a to-do list “of tasks that needed to be completed to facilitate a killing,” CNN reported. “In the notebook passage, Mangione concludes that using a bomb against his intended victim ‘could kill innocents’ but shooting would be more targeted, musing what could be better than ‘to kill the CEO at his own bean counting conference.'”
As for Maddow’s insistence on bringing Trump into the reporting on the murder of Thompson rather than sticking strictly with the known facts of the case, reactions not only pointed out that the “Tds is strong in that one,” but also how remarkable it was that such content was what MSNBC considered worth a contract of $25 million per year.
Tds is strong in that one
— They Call Me The Night Demon of Sicily (@ElizabethB12836) December 10, 2024
She gets paid to say such stupid things, and she gets paid a lot! That’s the big problem!
— Mr. Palaces (@Soproncopo007) December 10, 2024
She didnt wedge Russia or Putin or the Kremlin in there? She’s losing a step
— Dr. Eric Oh So Good MD (@EdoajoEric) December 10, 2024
if they didn’t make rachel take the pay cut, she would have also tied it into . . . putin
— Not Joanne (@jehasbrook) December 10, 2024
“We gotta check all these boxes every night, so yeah this story needs to be about Trump.”
— Ben (@benpayton) December 10, 2024
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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