Joy Behar has no sympathy for the UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting suspect Luigi Mangione and new details that he may have suffered with chronic back pain from an injury before the killing, she said on The View Tuesday.
“Oh, who hasn’t?” Behar said when cohost Sunny Hostin brought up the new info, “Everyone has back pain!” The hosts discussed the alleged shooter at length on Tuesday, with Whoopi Goldberg kicking things off by asking if any of the hosts were “surprised” that this “is the guy that did this.”
After authorities revealed Mangione as their prime suspect in the shooting, it was discovered that the 26 year old had been the valedictorian of his class and went on to graduate from the University of Pennsylvania in 2020. He’d moved to Hawaii with hopes of learning to surf in 2022—when, with only the brightest of futures seemingly ahead, his first surf lesson led to a devastating spinal injury that caused him chronic pain.
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“It’s all speculation now as to why someone so young, so promising, would do something like this,” Hostin said Tuesday, adding, “There’s some indication that he was also suffering from chronic back pain, severe chronic back pain.” That’s when Behar scoffed at the pain as a potential motive.
The crowd didn’t know where to applaud or groan, as Hostin chose not to unpack Behar’s comment and focus the rest of her comments on the need for regulation for ghost guns, one of which Mangione allegedly 3D-printed and used for the killing.
Alyssa Farah Griffin’s big takeaway, meanwhile, was that the suspect reveal is a “reminder that criminals or people who do harm don’t fit into any one box.”
