another lawsuit, this filed by kirk ikenwald from newsweek. he has epilepsy. he is the subject of a new civil lawsuit. so if the guy who is facing criminal charges now he s got this civil suit to deal with. yeah. two different sets of criminal charges. one in federal court, one in state court. principally that he engaged in aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. the deadly weapon here is his computer. a plethora of evidence on his computer that indicts him. that he knew that a strobe can cause an epileptic seizure and
he knew kirk ikenwald was an epileptic. he sends a tweet that says, you deserve a seizure for your posts around suddenly the strobe comes on. his wife is there, sees what happened. he s rushed to a hospital. he could have died. jon: this is so curious. when we looked at this case the first time, a tweet as a deadly weapon. you know what, jon? it s very much like the plaintiffs attorneys say. it s very much like bomb or anthrax in the mail to a recipient. the intent to harm. think about the unibomber case. kirk ikenwald was physically harmed by this. the victims of the unabomber were harm. prosecutors say it s the same thing. so the burden of proof is pretty easy.
everything i see has no respect for this person. that s because he would rather have a puppet as president of the united states. it s pretty clear you re the puppet. who is the puppet? the news week reporter has been breaking news on donald trump e virtually every week sheds light on the issue in the latest piece. i m joined by malcolm nans, kirk ikenwald, and a former intelligence operator and author of the book how to catch a russian spy. summarize this block buster new piece you have. i feel like every week you have another one. tell us what you know. what we know now from your latest reporting in news week regarding russia and trump. i think the worst part is
there was such a confidence this could never happen in america. are we overconfident again? that s a really good question. there s a very powerful op-ed column in another newspaper in the new york times by kirk ikenwald today that not only talks about that one dial daily briefing that we ve all heard about al qaeda determined to strike in the u.s., but warnings that were not heeded or adequately heeded and you kind of wonder now that we know that it really can happen here to us, we like to have the confidence we wouldn t be so negligent or whatever, just not believing, the next time around but you do worry because there is no, nt a daily focus on terrorism the way we sort of imagined there would be day to day in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. 11 years later we have slowed