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Tape my benefity like you just let me eat my way.
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Welcome world Toblazed listeners to episode fifty one. If you're
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a first time listener, thanks for stopping by, and for
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all those repeat listeners, I thank you very much. You
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five on Good Pods if you use good Pods to
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listen to any of your shows. And yeah, I had
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this whole show kind of put together my head over
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the weekend, which was a much needed needed weekend of relaxation.
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It was. It was filled with find cigars, libations in football,
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and if you haven't heard the show before, I'm just
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gonna let you all know that, Yes, I smoke fine cigar,
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I like fine libations such as high quality champagnes. I
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like bourbons, and of course find scotches. And I haven't
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done it in a while, but due to the fact
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that you listeners have been keeping us in the charts,
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I'm gonna go ahead in cheers to everybody. I'm gonna
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pop a little champagne and I got that open and
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I do I do have my glass? Is that done?
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Being poured over there. Okay, so I have my glass
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pored here, and this is where I'm gonna raise my glass.
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Everybody and listen. I'm recording this on a Monday afternoon.
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I'm gonna release this either late tonight Monday or early Tuesday,
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whenever you listen to this. But regardless, I know sometimes
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it's hard, whether you're at work, don't want to go
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to work, trying not to work, whatever the case is,
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maybe a love your job. Either way, I'm gonna tell
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us to everybody, and I'm gonna raise my glass and
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cheers to you and take a sip here. Mm hm man.
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That's refreshing, and that's a big cheer to you, and
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that I got that out of the way, take another sip,
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oh man, much needed. Okay, So let's get to it
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because I got a few things I want to talk about. Firstly,
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let's talk about what happened to the former CEO Brian
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Thompson of the United Healthcare Group. He was assassinated, and
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this has been a developing story that I was going
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to cover. In fact, I was going to record this
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episode earlier, but I decided to wait a bit because
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I wanted to see how this developed, because at the
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time we didn't have any real information. So I'm going
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to get right to that. I'm also going to go
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over and touch on the five hundred plus page report
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that was just released by the Committee on Oversight in
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regard to COVID. It was a two year long investigation.
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The final report has been released, and all I'm going
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to say is that all you tinfoil hat wearing listeners
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out there that were accused of conspiracy theories and just
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being anti government and anti American, well everything that you
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thought was true. So you've been vindicated. And of course,
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because I've been really having to geo politics lately, and
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because what happens abroad does alter in turn affect us
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in the USA, can't ignore what just happened in Syria. Now,
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this was an extremely fast developing event that is very
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complex and is still developing as of this recording, and
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I'm going to do my best to explain the situation
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and what happened. Although I will admit freely I'm I'm
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not an ocent person and I definitely I'm not an
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expert in that particular area. But I did do a
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lot of digging, a lot of research, and ask a
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few of my ocent friends on what was going on there.
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So I'm gonna do my best to explain that to
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you as well. Now let's get back to our first topic. CEO.
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Brian Thompson, the CEO of United Healthcare, was assassinated very recently,
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and by now, I'm sure everyone has seen the video.
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It appears that a professional assassin was hired to take
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out Brian Thompson. Now, there's a lot of theories and
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speculation as to why anybody would want to kill Brian Thompson. Now,
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Brian Thompson has worked for United Healthcare for many years.
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I believe over twenty maybe thirty years. I might have
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the exact number wrong, but regardless, he worked his way
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up pretty much from the bottom and eventually became CEO. Now,
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there are investigators that think that this was this assassination
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was due to grievances, due to a person who was
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wronged by the Healthcare Giant. But there's other there's other
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evidence out there that may suggest otherwise. Again, it appears
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to have been a professional hit, although at the time
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of that information coming out, people were assuming so much
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about the assassin and other professionals would weigh in and say, well,
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looks like a professional, and then others would say, it
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looks like someone who really just took this serious and
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probably practiced the action of killing Brian Thompson, because in
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the video you can clearly see the killer knew exactly
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where Brian Thompson was going to be, the killer was
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lying in wait, and you can also see that the
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killer in question knew how to handle his weapon. Now,
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the other reason it is assumed that this was a
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professional hit job really may not have been done due
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to personal grievances. You see, there was a DOJ problaunched
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and Brian Thompson has been accused of insider treating because
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Brian Thompson dumped more than fifteen million dollars in stock
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before a federal anti trust investigation into the insurance giant
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was publicly revealed, So before they were able to reveal this,
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he already dumped fifteen million dollars at stock, so he
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was accused of insider training, literally just dumping stock to
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get his money. Before this probe was made public, Thompson
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was one of three United Health Group executives named in
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the class action lawsuit. It was filed back in May
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and accused him of dumping millions of dollars were the stock.
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The company was at the time subject to a federal
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anti trust investigation. In fact, I'm getting this info from
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the Huffington Post themselves, so the investors say it wasn't
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immediately disclosed to the shareholders, so the shareholders didn't even
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know there was an investigation going on. So obviously if
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that investigation were to be made public, the stock would plummet,
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definitely reduce in value. But before any of that information
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was made known to any of the investors or the
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public in general, Thompson and the three other executives which
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I don't have the names of at the moment, decided
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they're just good dump the stock. They're gonna dump it
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before this info came out, cash out on it and
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walk away. United Health insiders sold, as it's been reported here,
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more than one hundred and twenty million dollars of their
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personally held United Health shares one hundred and twenty million
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dollars worth. They were able to cash out for one
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hundred and twenty million dollars before this report was made known.
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Now there seems to be there seems to be like
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maybe this was a hit from the inside of their
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own company. Somebody had some inside information outside of the
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stocks being dumped. Okay, there was something about Brian Thompson
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that maybe in the investigation he was going to blow
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the whistle on some people. That is quite possible. I'm
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speculating here, so don't take what I'm saying as truth,
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but it makes one wonder if that wasn't the case
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and that is why he was assassinated. Now, there was
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also a fair amount of messaging left behind by the
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assassin himself. There were three shellcasings left, and the shellcases
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themselves had the words one on each bullet or shellcasing Denied,
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defend into pose. Now, those three words do seem to
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reference a book that was written in twenty ten which
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was titled Delay, Denied, Defend, which was a book that
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was written to expose the insurance industry and explain how
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consumers and lawmakers can fight back. The assassin also ditched
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his backpack, and the backpack was found later, but the
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only thing in the backpack, according to multiple news reports,
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was a pile of monopoly money. Not real money, but
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monopoly money. There is a lot of messaging going on
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around this assassination. Now, while they were still searching for
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the assassin and they couldn't identify him, they had enough pictures,
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they believed, through cameras and whatnot, plastered all over New
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York City trying to find this person, and apparently, as
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of today, as of this recording, it seems that they
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may have actually found them. The person in question is
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believed to be Luigi Mangioni, an Italian who was an
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Ivy League grad with degrees in computer science. Was said
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to be an avid reader and active contributor on GitHub.
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Apparently the person and I can't confirm this, but it's
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been said had an IQ of about one hundred and thirty.
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Now question, being a person so smart, why would they
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have been easily caught Adam McDonald's while still having the
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gun or the murder weapon on them. They also found
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on Luigi multiple fake IDs, and while this very well
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made be the killer, it seems a bit like a
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setup or he's a fall guy. But at the same time,
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who knows it could be maybe this person just slipped up.
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Maybe it wasn't corporate involvement behind the killing of Brian Thompson.
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Maybe it really was Luigi himself who had been wronged
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in some way, maybe one of his family members and
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decided to take matters into his own hands. It's unclear.
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At this point, we really don't know. But what's crazy
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about this whole situation are the amount of Americans and
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people around the world who went on social media to
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praise this assassination. You see, United Healthcare was very well
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known for denying claims and critical health care needed. They
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were pretty much just about at the bottom of their
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rankings while also being one of the largest health health
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care insurance providers in the world. So it's again plausible
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that this person took matters in their own hands. But
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what's more revealing are the amount of people who praise
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this assassination, which really really goes to show that people
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are fed up with big insurance companies. They're fed up
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with the American health care system in general. It's expensive
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and your life is literally hanging upon the decision of
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someone sitting behind a desk going over whether or not
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it's feasible for them to pay for the medical care
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that you require. Now, whether or not this assassination was
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done by a disgruntled individual, or if this literally was
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the work of an insider within the company who was
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willing to kill Brian Thompson because he was about to
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spill the beans, as they say, on everyone else, that's
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still to be determined. But it seems like the latter
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to me. It really seems like there was someone high
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up that was willing to do what they had to
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do to silence Brian Thompson. But again that's my opinion,
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my theory. But based on the publicly made information and
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the fact that there was a DOJ probe into United
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Healthcare that also implicated Brian Thompson as well as two
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other individuals, it's hard to ignore that this may literally
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have been a call by upper management. Now, the suspect,
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Luigi Manngioni, did have, according to authorities, writings and whatnot,
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that that stated contempt or disdain for big corporations. It
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also seems that this person was an anti capitalist, a
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climate change activist, and could possibly have seen himself as
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a type of social justice warrior delivering a punishment to
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a high ranking CEO. Now, I think that that could
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be the case. It might be the case, or maybe
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this person was groomed. Maybe this person was trained to
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think a certain way and went through training and preparation
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to carry out the mission. Now, I know that sounds
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a little conspiratorial, but you got to hear me out
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on this. Everything surrounding this assassination is very, very suspect,
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involving DOJ probes, involving insider trading. I mean, we're talking
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about dumping nearly one hundred and twenty million dollars worth
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of stocks before the investigation was made public. There were
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two other people implicated in this alleged crime, and so
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got to kind of ask yourself if if this literally
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wasn't a hit job, and Luigi Mangioni was just someone
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who was twisted into believing that they were carrying out
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a mission that was critical to the social justice of
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everybody by taking out a high ranking CEO in the
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healthcare industry. Now, I'm going to try to transition here
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and let's move on to another healthcare related tragedy that