Hours after reports of a gunman opening fire at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday night, forcing the evacuation of President Donald Trump and the First Lady, a brewery in northern Wisconsin took to Facebook to express what it called disappointment that the attack had failed.
Minocqua Brewing Company is not a typical small-town taproom. Its owner, Kirk Bangstad, ran as the Democratic nominee for Wisconsin's 34th Assembly District in 2020, losing to Republican incumbent Rob Swearingen. He founded a SuperPAC under the brewery's name that has raised millions to unseat Republican officeholders and previously filed a lawsuit to remove Trump from the state's 2024 ballot.
