(Credit: Southern Poverty Law Center) Best-selling author and journalist Kurt Eichenwald, who is epileptic and has been a frequent critic of President Donald Trump, suffered a sudden seizure in December when he opened an animated tweet with a flashing strobe light image that said: “You deserve a seizure for your post.” His wife found him on the floor of his home office, called medics and responded to the sender “@jew Goldstein”: “This is his wife.