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UnitedHealthcare Social Media Manager Upset That WHCD Assassin Missed

If you've been reading Twitchy obsessively all day — and we hope you have — you'll have read Just Mindy's piece on an anesthesiologist at Beth Israel Hospital who wished that President Trump's would-be assassin had better gun control … wink wink. As Mindy wrote, it's disconcerting to think that a psycho wishing for the president to be shot would be the one putting you under before surgery.

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There seems to be something about both teachers and nurses (and other medical professionals) that attracts people like this. Cole Allen was the teacher of the year. And we've done more than a few posts about unhinged nurses having fantasies about Trump supporters dying.

Someone else who was sorry that Allen failed in his attempt was the social media manager for UnitedHealthcare. You'd think someone whose CEO had been gunned down in the street wouldn't be so hot to see people shot and killed, but there you are:

Why? Why do people who have these kinds of thoughts shoot video of themselves and post it to social media for the world to see?

It turns out in this case, there were consequences:

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You'd suspect that UnitedHealthcare, of all companies, would have little tolerance for assassination fantasies. She's probably a Luigi Mangione groupie with his mugshot on her bedroom wall.

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