The feud began when Bilzerian filmed himself fleeing from the Las Vegas shooting that took place Sunday night, claiming he saw a woman get shot in the head- and abandoned her.
The seemingly opportunistic account from the ground -be it for attention or genuine panic- and subsequent response to the disaster sparked the ire of USMC Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer.
“This is why children shouldn’t classify heroes by their followers or their photos,” Dakota Meyer wrote on twitter. “Dan Bilzerian [,] this is what kills me about people like you. Always playing “operator dress up” and so so tough when the cameras are on. A woman just got shot in the head and you are running away filming[.] that’s not what operators do. Please stop trying to be someone your [sic] not. People are dying, you’re running away not helping them and pretending it’s worthy of a video is disgusting.”
President Obama presents the Medal of Honor to Marine Corps Sgt. Dakota Meyer.
Overnight, Dan Bilzerian became the subject of articles, memes and other such content that documented his ordeal.
In response, Bilzerian stared into his camera phone once again and responded to the bad press, calling Meyer a “retard.”
“So I wake up this morning, and the news is talking sh*t,” he said on October 3. “Some Marine saying that I was a pu**y for running away and that I should have stood my ground when I got a guy shooting at me with a machine gun.”
“So, I mean, if we follow that retard’s logic, we’d probably have, you know, 600 dead if everybody stood their ground instead of running for cover.”
Even ignoring that a SEAL-washout who never saw combat referred to an MOH recipient as “some Marine,” the poker-player then went on to attempt online absolution, claiming he went back to grab firearms and stayed in the area for three hours.