We first wrote about fake celebrity, Dan Bilzerian in December 2013 when he was pushing the idea that he was “almost a SEAL”. According to Bilzerian, he was booted from BUD/S for reasons that seem to change. He claims that he struck an officer, that he cursed an officer, that he committed a safety violation, that the instructors were out to get him. Take your pick on which excuse you want to believe.
Bilzerian was in the news again in the last few weeks because he happened to be at the Las Vegas massacre and he was able to post to Instagram while the shooting was going on. He was criticized by Medal of Honor recipient, Dakota Meyer for scurrying away from the scene without helping any of the injured folks. From Washington Post;
He turned a camera on himself as he walked, short of breath, from the killing grounds, and at first resolved to live up to years of online bravado.
“Trying to go grab a gun,” he says in the clip. “I’m f—— headed back. … Saw a girl get shot in the face right next to me, her f—— brains hanging out.”
But in the next clip, which briefly appeared on Bilzerian’s Instagram account and has since been plastered over the Internet, he stands in front of police lights, looking slightly dazed.
“Um, they got one of the guys,” he says, no gun in sight, all fury gone from his voice. “I’m headed back. I don’t think there’s much I can do.”
So he went home, leaving fans to wonder whether one of Instagram’s most formidable stars was something different in real life.
Here’s video from the UK’s Sun of Bilzerian begging cops for their gun during the shooting. They tell him to “Get the F*** away from me”.
So, according to Dakota Meyer, Bilzerian is all hot air. His “almost a SEAL” bravado dissipates under actual gun fire. Meyer rushed through Taliban fire several times to rescue a number of people from an ambush in Afghanistan earning a Medal of Honor.
Well, now it seems that Bilzerian has been handing out the phone number of Meyer’s wife, Bristol Palin, according to Celebrity Insider and Meyer has challenged Bilzerian to settle their differences like men;
Yesterday, the decorated marine took to social media to make his unexpected challenge known.
Meyer posted a video that he captured: ‘Here @danbilzerian I am done with your petty games. Do not ever drag my family into anything. I’m waiting.’
In the video he shared, Meyer threatened Bilzerian, saying he has finally gotten his attention if that is what he wanted.
He went on to claim that he would’ve easily let it slide if Bilzerian only messed with him but his family is a whole different story.
‘You want to bring my family in this, you want to put my wife in danger by putting her phone number out to people? You got your little friends trying to FaceTime her? My life is not a game and it is not entertainment either so what I’ll tell you is, my family’s purpose is my purpose, and now you are my mission. This ain’t an option. You just need to tell me when and where and if not we will be somewhere together, I’m sure. Why don’t we handle this like men? You got it, Dan? I’m waiting.’
Well, someone asked us if we had Bilzerian’s military records, so we searched our archives and turned up a FOIA on him;
It looks like he was honorably discharged as a Quartermaster, an E-4. He went on to the Reserves and he wouldn’t have if he’d had an other than honorable discharge from the Navy. He left the Navy the month after the war in Iraq began. If it had been me, I would have stuck around for a few years, you know, since we were at war, but that’s me.
He likes to play dress up and talk about what a badass he is, but the truth is that Dan Bilzerian left the military when they needed him most. Or maybe he did the Navy a favor by leaving. Either way, Las Vegas wasn’t the first time he ran from a fight.
