A Trump fan knew I have epilepsy. So he tried 2 cause a seizure as punishment 4 my writing about him

[kpete]

HOW DONALD TRUMP SUPPORTERS ATTACK JOURNALISTS
BY KURT EICHENWALD ON 10/7/16 AT 11:25 AM
Shortly after I wrote an article for Newsweek about how Donald Trump’s business interests could undermine national security should he be elected president, one of his supporters assaulted me. He used the internet to do it.

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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.” Like many Trump supporters, he has chosen to identify himself as deplorable to mock the label once used by Clinton to describe the racists, neo-Nazis, homophobes and like who have crawled out of the sewer to cheer for the Republican nominee. Mike, however, is indeed deplorable.

In his tweet, which has since been deleted, Mike made mention of my seizures and included a small video. It contained images of Pepe the Frog, a cartoon character that has been identified by the Anti-Defamation League as a hate symbol. I was carrying my iPad, looking at the still image on the video and, without thinking, touched the PLAY button.

The video was some sort of strobe light, with flashing circles and images of Pepe flying toward the screen. It’s what’s called epileptogenic—something that triggers seizures. Fortunately, since I was standing, I simply dropped my iPad to the ground the second I realized what Mike had done. It landed face down on the bathroom floor.

The deplorables are real. The deplorables are dangerous.


http://www.newsweek.com/epileptogenic-pepe-video-507417

EICHENWALD:
The part I left out. Trump deplorables: U don't scare me. You don't scare my family. I will not stop.
https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/784420482611187712

[Lifelong Protester]

1. Deplorable.

[busterbrown]

14. Believe me...The Top Tier of the Deplorable Staff..

Fully encourages this kind of Goddamn behavior..

[vlyons]

2. Very sorry that creep tried to harm you

Many Trumpsters are a vengeful lot that take delight in lashing out and hurting people. Very sicko to the max. I also have a history of grand mal seizures, although it's been 20 years since I had one. Thank god! I know how awful they are and how pissed off I got upon waking up in the back of an ambulance. Seizures suck.

[Hekate]

11. From an article by the investigative reporter Eichenwald, not kpete...

The mentality really is sick.

I'm glad for you that it's been 20 years.

[annabanana]

3. that's horrifying. .

What the hell's WRONG with these people?

[Gothmog]

4. What a disgusting trick to try

[Rex]

5. The GOP has never slithered away from death and misery.

Besides hate and fear, it is their money train. Republicans leaders send people off to war to die and don't give a shit about it at all. It bleeds down to their minions and causes copycat behavior.

One of the main themes of Cons is how violent and blood thirsty they are for the End of Days so they can rampage with their ten million guns in the name of Jesus.

Deplorable and demented. Depraved.

[Control-Z]

6. I just posted about this in another thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028211822#post5

Intentionally trying to trigger a seizure seems criminal to me.

[amuse bouche]

7. This investigative reporter is amazing

Deplorables are morons

[napkinz]

8. posted by DonViejo

Trump fans heckle 7-year-old girl with disabilities for trying to leave Colorado rally early

see http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017404114

they are truly deplorable

[PatSeg]

9. That is chilling

[Hekate]

10. Horrifying. Stay strong, Mr Eichenwald. The country needs you. nt

[Warpy]

12. Mike needs to be hit with an assault charge

Seizures can be lethal.

What a despicable SOB he is.

[allan01]

17. i was just thinking about that on the same line .,

that person who attempted to cause harm needs to be removed from facebook.

[Madam45for2923]

13. Just freaking awful!

[rbrnmw]

15. sick bastards

[Kathy M]

16. This is wrong on so many levels .....

Is there any way a twitter account can be traced like an IP address ?

Hope he reports this along hope the other reporters report also .....

Sounds just like Don 's MO to threaten for silence

They must have sent the E.E.G. strobe lights that are used during test ...... they are no fun

Thank You Kurt Eichenwald for everything ......

[Oneironaut]

18. Peep The Frog isn't a white nationalist symbol.

The character was hijacked by 4Chan trolls and eventually grew to be used by some white supremacists. That wasn't the original point of the character.

[SunSeeker]

21. Yes it is. The cross used by the Nazis was similarly hijacked. But it symbolizes them now.

Just like Pepe the Frog now symbolizes the alt-right.

[SunSeeker]

19. Wow. This should be reported to the police.

[retrowire]

20. digital assault.

Should be a crime.

[SunSeeker]

22. It was an assault. It meets all the elements of assault, including intent. nt