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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWall 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-profitA 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 itselfor at least a couple miles of it.
Brian Kolfages 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 Trumps orbit to run a new 501(c)(4) nonprofit, named We Fund The Wall, to do some wall construction of its own. The new groups 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
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pepperbear
(5,648 posts)3. He rescinded his promise? Well that's not cricket.
Turbineguy
(37,338 posts)2. Conning conservatives is a fool-proof way
to wealth.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)4. ...