Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) drew backlash online over remarks he made over the weekend about the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
Sanders made the remarks during a Sunday NBC News interview with Kristen Welker on “Meet The Press” when asked about remarks from Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who responded to the assassination by saying “you can only push people so far and then they start to take matters into their own hands.”
“Is this the right time in the wake of this horrific murder to be talking about health care policy?” Welker asked.
“Elizabeth Warren obviously understands killing and murder and shooting somebody in the back is totally unacceptable,” he said. “But what I think has happened in the last few months is that what you have seen rising up is people’s anger at a health insurance industry which denies people the health care that they…
