U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz blames Ivy League indoctrination for healthcare CEO’s killing

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz on Monday blamed the slaying of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson on Ivy League schools, suggesting in a tweet that the shooting suspect’s education left him prone to the mental disease of “Leftism.”

The irony, of course, is that Cruz, a Texas Republican, is a double Ivy League-educated elite himself, holding degrees from both Princeton and Harvard.

Thompson’s suspected shooter, Luigi Mangione, 26, was arrested Monday in Pennsylvania after a nationwide manhunt. He now faces forgery, firearms and document-tampering charges and more, CBS News reports.

Mangione is expected to be extradited to New York in coming weeks so he can be charged in connection with Thompson’s death, according to CBS.

Mangione was from an affluent Baltimore family and earned both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania, a fact Cruz ran with in a post on social media platform X.

“The suspected murderer, an Ivy League graduate, ‘subscribed to anticapitalist and climate-change causes, according to law enforcement,'” Cruz wrote. “And the murderer has been widely celebrated by leftists online. Tragic and sick.”

Cruz also tweeted that “Leftism is a mental disease.”

Naturally, Cruz neglected to mention he earned his own bachelor’s degree in public policy from Princeton before heading over to Harvard to get his JD. Truly the pedigree of a working class hero.

Meanwhile, Mangione’s X account shows that he expressed a wide array of views that don’t seem to align with a specific ideology.

Indeed, Mangione appeared to share political common ground with Cruz in tweets railing against DEI. What’s more, the suspect called on people to return to Christianity, and he aired grievances about the way society views men.

At the same time, Mangione left a four-star Amazon review of Unabomber Ted Kaczynski’s manifesto and reposted a quote from Aldous Huxley’s book Brave New World, widely considered a critique of modern capitalism.

So far, authorities haven’t spelled out a detailed motive for the shooting of Thompson. But that certainly didn’t stop the often-wrong-but-never-mistaken Cruz from jumping to conclusions.

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