This is what some esteemed people refer to as “doubling down on stupid.” We recently brought you the story of one Kirk Bangstad, the owner of a Minnesota business called the Minocqua Brewing Company. After the latest (and the third) assassination attempt on President Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Mr. Bangstad took to X to express regret that he wasn’t able to celebrate the assassination of the President of the United States by giving away free beer.
This brewery in Wisconsin is gushing over the assassination attempt.
These people want us dead. pic.twitter.com/Hf4x99Dq1i
— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) April 26, 2026
That was his first dumb move.
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Now, on Friday, we see that Mr. Bangstad has done a cannonball into the deep end of the dumb moves pool. How? Well, his initial remarks drew, as we might expect, the attention of the Secret Service and the FBI.
The FBI and Secret Service are meeting with Kirk Bangstad of the Minocqua Brewing Company, according to a Substack post by Bangstad himself.
The development follows the FBI’s acknowledgment of Bangstad’s previous social media statements promoting a “free beer day” on the day President Donald Trump dies and comments he made after a recent assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. The FBI’s Milwaukee field office said it was aware of the posts and that it investigates all threats of violence or terrorism.
And this seems like, at the very least, a claim to wish to celebrate the death of the president. But Bangstad wasn’t done being dumb yet:
In the newest post, Bangstad wrote: “the Secret Service and FBI have contacted me. I’m speaking with them with my lawyer Fred in less than an hour.” He continued: “If you don’t hear from our socials tonight, something is wrong. I am of sound mind and body, and am in no way thinking of harming myself.”
Bangstad added: “If you don’t hear back from me tonight, don’t believe a thing you hear from the federal government about what happened to me. I’ve directed my team to start communicating through these or other channels if I’m imprisoned. Listen to my team, who will identify themselves as such, instead of the federal government, if you want to be updated honestly about my status.”
Yeah, the Secret Service doesn’t imprison people without due process. This is the kind of thing that will get him what my grandmother would have called “a durn good talking-to,” and he’d be told to watch out for making threats against elected officials. But here’s where Kirk Bangstad folded up and cannonballed into that pool; he issued another X screed and released the Secret Service agent’s phone number who reached out to arrange an interview. That’s doxing a federal agent.
Minocqua Brewing Company owner Kirk Bangstad posted to Facebook the phone number of a Secret Service agent who contacted him Thursday and urged followers to tell the agent to “stand down” in what may be a serious violation of federal law.
Bangstad, who is under Secret Service and FBI investigation for potentially threatening President Trump, posted the transcription of a voicemail one of the agents left him and included the unredacted phone number the agent provided. Bangstad then instructed his followers to “call this number and ask this Secret Service agent to stand down and honor his oath to his country.”
So, not just doxing the Secret Service agent, Bangstad is encouraging his readers to harass the agent by calling and bugging them with stupid remarks. And this, instead of a good talking-to, may be worth jail time.
The Protecting Law Enforcement from Doxxing Act, codified as 18 US Code § 119, makes it a serious federal crime to “knowingly [make] restricted personal information about a covered person…publicly available” with the “intent to threaten, intimidate, or incite the commission of a crime of violence against that covered person.” Conviction under the statute is punishable by up to five years in federal prison.
Bangstad’s post makes it clear that his intent in publishing the agent’s private cell phone number is to incite his followers to intimidate the agent into dropping the investigation into Bangstad. This appears to be an obvious violation of this statute.
Here, look:
Minocqua Brewing Company owner Kirk Bangstad has potentially committed a serious federal crime by posting a Secret Service agent’s cell phone number and telling his followers to call the agent and tell him to “stand down” from the investigation into Bangstad.… pic.twitter.com/hulJQXqqtT
— The Heartland Post (@HeartlandPostWI) April 30, 2026
And remember: This guy got into this mess originally for voicing support for an attempted presidential assassination.
Whatever legal penalties Kirk Bangstad may face from all this, there’s one thing that should happen: His business should be roundly boycotted, and not just by Republicans. This kind of behavior is beyond the pale. But the left, these days, seems obsessed with political violence; it’s the left, not the right, that seems anxious to resolve political differences with arson, rioting, looting, and murder. That’s right; it is members of the “peaceful, tolerant” left who have tried three times to kill President Trump. They are the ones who attack ICE and DHS agents. They are the ones who burned and looted our major cities in the 2020 “Summer of Love” riots.
Kirk Bangstad is just the latest in this list, and he’s rather a sad example; he can’t even be bothered to do anything but incite. But inciting — and doxing a federal agent — may be enough to earn him some jail time, and if there’s any justice in the world, it will cost him his business.
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