Scott Jennings Questions Why Public Knows More About Alleged CEO Murderer Than Trump Shooter, Nashville Manifesto

CNN senior political commentator Scott Jennings questioned Tuesday why the public has learned detailed information about the alleged murderer of the UnitedHealthcare CEO while they still lack knowledge on the would-be assassins of President-elect Donald Trump and the 2023 school shooter in Nashville, Tennessee.

Luigi Mangione, the suspected murderer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, wrote a three-paged manifesto where he lamented how Thompson’s company and other healthcare corporations allegedly “abuse” the U.S. to gather up “immense profit,” according to a published copy of the note. Jennings questioned why detailed information regarding the attempted assassins of Trump or Audrey Hale, who murdered six at a Christian school in Nashville, have been hidden from the public long after the incidents.

“Do you think they should’ve released manifesto?” Jennings asked former Fox News host Geraldo Rivera. “Because some of the other shootings we’ve had in this country and other places, we still don’t know anything about the person who shot at Trump, we still don’t know much about the person who committed that atrocity at the Christian school in Nashville. There’s a lot of shootings … there’s a lot of things that are hidden from 🇺🇸US, and this guy, Geraldo, shoots and we know more in 5 minutes about him than we do about all these other people, and I wonder why that is.”

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CNN contributor Cari Champion said Mangione’s story has “hit home for a lot of people” since many Americans are fed up with the healthcare system. Former CNN host and congressional candidate John Avlon argued Americans’ anger with healthcare corporations is not connected to Thompson’s murder.

The public has learned several things about Mangione in a short period of time, including that he was born into a wealthy family and graduated from the Gilman School, a prestigious all-boys institution, in 2016,