Former Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz made several social media posts in which he appeared to celebrate the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson while suggesting that other executives should also be targeted.

Thompson was shot at point-blank range outside the Hilton Hotel in Midtown Manhattan on Wednesday morning. The suspect remains at large.

“And people are wondering why we want these leaders dead,” Lorenz wrote hours later, referencing Thompson’s death in a Bluesky post with a report that Blue Cross Blue Shield was providing anesthesia for the entire duration of some surgeries no longer covers.

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Lorenz also posted a picture of Blue Cross Blue Shield CEO Kim Keck with a similar article about Bluesky and X.

She reposted another user who wrote: “Hypothetically speaking, would emailing other insurance CEOs a simple ‘You’re next’ be an actionable threat?” By the way, this has nothing to do with current events at all.”

She later appeared to defend the harsh comments, claiming there is “very justified hatred” against CEOs because of the “amount of death and suffering” for which they are supposedly responsible.

“People rightly hate insurance company CEOs because these executives are responsible for an unimaginable amount of death and suffering. As someone who is against death and suffering, I think it is good to denounce this broken system and the people in power who enable it,” Lorenz wrote.

Lorenz shared several posts written by other social media users in which he attacked Thompson and appeared to justify his death by insinuating that he had killed dozens of people through inadequate health insurance.

“He is shown the same empathy he showed others every day,” one post said.

Another post said: “My insurance does not cover monoclonal antibodies to prevent COVID or enough Paxlovid to treat COVID. They have no problem with my suffering or my possible death. Murder is wrong no matter how it is committed.”

“‘Every life is precious’ stuff about a healthcare CEO whose company is known for denying health insurance is pretty silly,” read a third.

She also shared the posts of other left-leaning journalists, including Jezebel contributor Kylie Cheung and journalist Ken Klippenstein, who has worked for The Intercept and The Nation in the past.

Cheung wrote: “The way we are socialized to see violence only as interpersonal violence – not to see state violence (politics that create/kill poverty), structural violence, institutional violence – is very conscious. The same goes for panic about ~shoplifting~ vs. how many companies are stealing from every single one of us.”

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“No, murder is bad. “The jokes about United’s CEO are not really about him, but about the predatory health care system he embodied and about which Americans feel deep pain and humiliation,” Klippenstein wrote. In another post, he joked that he hoped Thompson’s ambulance ride “was on the network.”

Thompson was 50 years old and left behind a wife and two sons.

Lorenz clarified her post by saying, “And people wonder why we want these leaders dead,” telling Fox News Digital, “My post uses the royal we and explains public opinion.”

“Yet health care executives desperately want people dead as long as it helps their bottom line, and that’s the whole problem,” Lorenz said. “My condolences go out to the innocent people who have died or suffered because greedy insurance companies denied them coverage.”

When asked about her post about Keck, Lorenz told Fox News Digital that her “motivation” was to “show who is behind this type of decision.”

She added to her post about the CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield.”

“Health care is a human right. We need universal health care now,” added Lorenz.

Lorenz left the Washington Post in October and started her user magazine Substack. The far-left writer also formerly worked for The New York Times and has been involved in several online controversies over the years.

In 2022, she sobbed on air during an MSNBC interview about alleged online harassment she faced, in a moment that was mocked by conservatives. Lorenz then criticized the progressive broadcaster for its handling of the story.

Known for her extreme fears about COVID-19, she went viral earlier this week when she fretted that people not wearing masks in 2024 would “suck the air out.”

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