Minocqua Brewing Company, a craft-beer maker in Minocqua, Wisconsin, run by a Democrat activist, is facing fierce blowbackafter its social-media account appeared to mock a recent assassination attempt on President Donald Trumpand reiterated an earlier pledge to offer free beer on the day of his death.
The company, owned byKirk Bangstad - who ran as the Democrat nominee for Wisconsin’s 34th Assembly District in 2020 and founded an anti-Republican super PAC- posted on social media shortly after news of the latest attempt on the president. “Well, we almost got #freebeerday,” the postread, according to screenshots circulated online. “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. We’ll never know.”
“Regardless, we stand at the ready to pour free beer the day it happens,” the post added.
The brewery had previouslypromisedfree beer “all day long, the day he dies,” in reference to Trump. The company also sells merchandise tied to the pledge, including T-shirts that read “I wish it was free beer day,” and markets itself as blending craft beer with radical progressive activism.
A spokesman for the Wisconsin Democrat Party condemned the post. “This rhetoric is completely unacceptable and should be retracted immediately,” Phil Shulman told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. “We’re not afraid to call out this sort of inappropriate behavior no matter where it comes from—our GOP colleagues should learn to do the same.”
Republican officials and Trump allies denounced the comments as inflammatory, urging broader Democratic condemnation.
"Wisconsin Democrats are so sick in the head that an attempted murder is funny to them," Republican National Committee spokesperson Delanie Bomar toldFox Newsin a statement. "All Wisconsin Democrats, including Rebecca Cooke, must immediately condemn this disgusting behavior.”
This brewery in Wisconsin is gushing over the assassination attempt.These people want us dead.pic.twitter.com/Hf4x99Dq1i
.@RebeccaforWIworked for this reprehensible scum, and that is exactly what he is.This is shocking and she needs to answer for this now.Unfit for office, both of them.https://t.co/o6Zw6BFadZpic.twitter.com/6iIMv1Z48J
This is deranged and beneath our state.Wisconsin, let’s unite in rejecting this garbage.
Source: ZeroHedge News
