The operations director for a controversial leftist congresswoman downplayed the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson after Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty to related charges last week."You’ll never convince me that Luigi is a villain while everyone in the Epstein files is roaming free," Briana Rose Lee said Friday on X after Mangione pleaded guilty to interstate stalking resulting in death and cyberstalking/use of interstate facilities resulting in death.Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., is currently seeking re-election for her fifth term in Congress.Lee's X bio says she does "operations" for the progressive congresswoman.
Her LinkedIn profile confirms she has been working for Omar since January 2024, and that she is the former chairwoman of the Minneapolis Democratic-Farm-Labor (DFL) party.Rep.Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., sits with fellow Democrats on the House Education and Labor Committee during a bill markup, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 6, 2019.
Omar stirred controversy last week saying that Israel's supporters are pushing U.S.lawmakers to take a pledge of "allegiance to a foreign country." Omar is not apologizing for that remark, and progressives are supporting her.
(AP Photo/J.Scott Applewhite) "On the morning of Dec.
4, 2024, I shot Mr.Thompson in Manhattan," Mangione told the court during last week's proceedings.
"I knew what I was doing."LUIGI MANGIONE PLEADS GUILTY IN FEDERAL COURT TO STALKING AND KILLING UNITEDHEALTHCARE CEO BRIAN THOMPSONThompson, a husband, father-of-two and the top executive at UnitedHealthcare, was a Minnesota resident who lived in the suburbs of Minneapolis — just outside of Omar's district.He was in New York City for business at the time of his death.Lee faced some backlash for her post."You know you have sold your soul for your political beliefs when you are supporting an assassin who murdered a Minnesota father in cold blood," one X user said in a reply to the post.
"You and many others need to seek help."Luigi M...