Ilhan Omar staffer shredded for downplaying healthcare CEO’s killing after Luigi Mangione guilty plea

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.

"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 THOMPSON Thompson, 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." "This comment perfectly highlights the mental illness plaguing the Democratic Party.

Completely ignorant and psychotic," said another. 'THE VIEW' HOSTS CALL OUT CONSPIRACY THEORY THAT SHOOTING WAS STAGED, WARN AGAINST MAKING SHOOTER A MARTYR "Luigi changed nothing about our healthcare system.