Trump blasts UnitedHealthcare CEO murder suspect support [Video]

President-elect Trump weighed in on the assassination-style murder of a health insurance executive Monday, calling viral support for the murder that has appeared online a “sickness.”

The incoming president, who has deep roots in New York City, called the ambush shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson “cold-blooded and “horrible” during a news briefing Monday, a week after police in Altoona, Pennsylvania, arrested 26-year-old University of Pennsylvania alumnus Luigi Mangione.

“I think it’s really terrible that some people seem to admire him – like him,” Trump said. “It was cold-blooded, just a cold-blooded, horrible killing.”

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Mangione, a computer programmer with an Ivy League background who hails from a wealthy Maryland family, allegedly stalked Thompson to a Manhattan hotel and shot him in the back with a suppressed, 3D-printed handgun.

Days before police had identified him as the suspect, they shared a surveillance photo taken at the New York Cityhostel where Mangione allegedly stayed before the murder. It …