


The View kicked off Tuesday morning with a conversation about Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old arrested and charged with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
Mangione, who was charged yesterday with one count of second-degree murder, two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, one count of second-degree possession of a forged document and one count of third-degree criminal possession of a weapon, per CNN, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with both a bachelor’s and master’s degree and worked as an engineer.
As Whoopi Goldberg noted on today’s show, “A lot of people seem to be surprised that this is the guy that did this,” before asking her co-hosts if they were shocked by the suspect’s identity.
Alyssa Farah Griffin said the reveal was a reminder that perpetrators “don’t fit into one box,” while Joy Behar took the opportunity to call out Sen. Ted Cruz for his comments about “leftism” being “a mental disease” after Mangione’s arrest, referring to the suspect’s alleged “anti-capitalist” views.
As for Sunny Hostin, she admitted that it’s still unclear to everyone why Mangione allegedly shot Thompson.
“It’s all speculation now as to why someone so young, so promising, would do something like this,” Hostin began. “There’s some indication that he was also suffering from chronic back pain, severe chronic back pain.”
According to a New York Times report, friends of Mangione said he “lived with significant, sometimes debilitating back pain” and has surgery for his condition last year.

But Behar was not buying Mangione’s back pain as an alleged motive in the shooting.
“Oh, who hasn’t? Everyone has back pain!” she said with a dismissive wave of her hand.
Hostin didn’t engage, but did maintain that the motive remains unclear. She told her co-hosts, “We’re not sure, we’re not sure why this happened.”
The View airs weekdays at 11/10c on ABC.