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pepperbear

(5,648 posts)
Fri Jan 11, 2019, 08:33 PM Jan 2019

Wall Crowd Funder decides to use $ to build wall himself

https://www.thedailybeast.com/gofundme-border-wall-campaign-implodes-turns-to-kris-kobach-and-sheriff-clarke-for-new-non-profit

A decorated veteran who raised more than $20 million to finance construction of a wall along the southern U.S. border has announced that he will instead use the money to finance a new nonprofit group that will build the wall itself—or at least a couple miles of it.

Brian Kolfage’s crowdfunding campaign on the website GoFundMe went viral in December, before news outlets uncovered previous instances in which the triple-amputee veteran appeared to have pocketed funds raised through similar, if far smaller, campaigns billed as efforts to assist wounded warriors.

Now Kolfage, a prolific operator of conspiracy theory Facebook pages, has recruited a team of prominent figures in President Donald Trump’s orbit to run a new 501(c)(4) nonprofit, named We Fund The Wall, to do some wall construction of its own. The new group’s board, Kolfage announced on Friday, includes Erik Prince, the founder of infamous military contract Blackwater; David Clarke, the former scandal-plagued sheriff of Milwaukee County; Fox News contributor Sara Carter; Tom Tancredo, an immigration hardliner and former Colorado congressman; and former Kansas Secretary of State and voter fraud crusader Kris Kobach.



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Wall Crowd Funder decides to use $ to build wall himself (Original Post) pepperbear Jan 2019 OP
Here is an update: spooky3 Jan 2019 #1
He rescinded his promise? Well that's not cricket. pepperbear Jan 2019 #3
Conning conservatives is a fool-proof way Turbineguy Jan 2019 #2
... Scurrilous Jan 2019 #4
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