Some of you may remember that an attempt was made to murder Kurt Eichenwald, who is epileptic, by sending him a Tweet designed to trigger a seizure — some patterns of rapidly flashing images can induce a severe reaction in epileptics.
Today, Eichenwald’s Tweeting out that Richard Spencer, notorious Nazi and white supremacist, confessed on tape to an Atlantic reporter that he was part of the conspiracy to kill Eichenwald.
Read that last tweet again. We know that white supremacist groups support Trump bigly during the election. We know that Trump is a petty vengeful jerk, with sincere apologies to all those who self-identify as petty vengeful jerks. It does not strain my credulity much to imagine Trump asking for someone to “rid him of this troublesome reporter”, for Eichenwald hit Trump hard and often about his taxes and Russian connections. We shall see if a Trump campaign connection turns up.
BTW, there are people who know how to lock / erase a compute such that the FBI has trouble getting in. I’m going to guess that Richard Spencer isn’t one of them.
As the penultimate tweet says, this is a lot better than punching a Nazi. This is punching all the Nazis at once.
EDIT:
One last insult as Kurt vents spleen: