Posted on 05/05/2026 8:13:00 AM PDT by Libloather
Minocqua Brewing Company owner Kirk Bangstad, who offered free beer in the event of President Donald Trump's death, announced his bid for Wisconsin governor on Sunday.
"I’m running for Governor because I believe Wisconsin needs a battle-hardened fighter to join the rest of America to save our Democracy from Trump’s regime, and that person doesn’t exist in the crowded field of Democrats currently running in Wisconsin’s Gubernatorial primary," Bangstad wrote in a Substack post on Sunday.
Bangstad's announcement came a little over a week after his brewery advertised free beer in the event of Trump's death. The Facebook comments came after news of shots being fired at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, where Trump and several of his Cabinet members attended.
"Well, we almost got #freebeerday. Either a brother or sister in the Resistance needs to work on their marksmanship or he faked another assassination to get a positive news cycle," the post said. "We’ll never know. Regardless, we stand at the ready to pour free beer the day it happens."
The post led to Bangstad and his company being investigated by the FBI and Secret Service and disavowed by members of the Wisconsin Democratic Party, according to Bangstad.
The messaging mistake [State Rep. Francesca] Hong made, as well as [gubernatorial candidate Mandela] Barnes and the rest of the Corporate Democrats, spilled progressive blood into the water that created a feeding frenzy against me, my fiancé, and my company. Trump’s propaganda machine and the corporate media that continuously fails America with its cancerous 'bothside-ism,' came after me with full force; and that led to me being interrogated and intimidated by the FBI and the Secret Service," Bangstad wrote.
He continued, "After those two agents left my taproom on Thursday night, I told my lawyer Fred that I was...
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There’s something wrong with this guy
This is what patriots, from the American revolution to present times in the Middle East are being rewarded with. This is what passes for loyal opposition in the current USA.
Some hacker should put a picture of Mohammed on his website.
You can't make this stuff up.
Imagine businesses and individuals throughout the state of Wisconsin offering free beer or other items in the event of his death.
So hr was “intimidated.”
Tough guy.
Toss this sicko into a vat of his beer. With concrete footwear on.
What a shock - another nutjob Democrat candidate.
he sounds just insane and dangerous enough to be a D politician
>> There’s something wrong with this guy
I’m guessing “narcissism”.
It is wise to become a gubernatorial candidate, what with the many people who are considering coming to his house and killing him.
The available data confirms that Kirk Bangstad is the owner and founder of the business, which is located at 329 Front St, Minocqua, WI 54548. The company has been involved in local controversies, including the revocation of its conditional use permit to operate the storefront due to noise complaints and neighborhood tensions.
The entire state of Wisconsin is an embarrassment to this country. Bunch of communist losers.
He’s got the Madison vote locked up, for sure.
Just like the east coast and the west coast.
Guys like this always freak me out, because by all accounts he looks normal, but in his mind and heart is radical anti-American leftism. Who knows how many are out there like him who think like him?
It’s much easier to identify them when they have their green hair and septum rings and spit at people in the street protests.
And once again like all leftists, he’s quintupling down rather than crawling into a hole. A ‘sincere fanatic’.
He’s drinking too much of his own beer. 😏
I’ll give a free beer to anyone that is the mainspring of his unaliveness.
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