That Time a Trump Supporter Tried to Induce a Seizure in Kurt Eichenwald

"This is not an unavoidable consequence of a contentious political campaign."

It’s a sad reality that accounts of Trump supporters sending hateful, racist, anti-Semitic messages to those critical of Trump rarely causes a jaw drop these days, but this story from Newsweek’s Kurt Eichenwald certainly did.

Eichenwald has epilepsy, a publicly known fact, and one that’s central to this narrative:

A couple of weeks later, after my article about how Trump’s business interests would create a conflict of unprecedented proportions, I received a tweet from someone with the twitter handle “Mike’s Deplorable AF.”

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