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I am not sure I quite understand this??? Seems the checkered vet is going to transfer the millions to another group run by con men!! Is it a private business? private Wall??
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RAN INTO WALL
GoFundMe Border Wall Campaign Implodes, Turns to Kris Kobach and Sheriff Clarke
https://www.thedailybeast.com/gofundme-border-wall-campaign-implodes-turns-to-kris-kobach-and-sheriff-clarke-for-new-non-profit
The wall wont build itself.
Lachlan Markay, Will Sommer
01.11.19 3:51 PM ET
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 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
I joined the organization because its mission is of the highest importance to our country, Kobach told The Daily Beast. The wall needs to be completed, and it needs to be done as soon as possible. The best way to accomplish that is through a combination of both public and private efforts.
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NBC: Man Behind Border Wall GoFundMe Ran Fake News Websites
The groups formation comes amidst heated fighting in Washington over financing for Trumps border wall. A partial shutdown of the federal government has persisted for nearly three weeks as Trump and Democratic congressional leaders spar over the formers demands for more than $5 billion in border wall funding.
Kolfages fundraising campaign was initially designed to help finance that construction with private contributions. He insisted that he had been in contact with a number of federal officials and members of Congress devising ways to funnel the massive amounts of money raised on GoFundMe to the federal treasury....................................
It appears that that plan went awry..................
riversedge
(70,214 posts)I had a big ad on my computer and I thought the article ended but there was more.
............Dustin Stockton, a conservative activist and We Fund The Wall spokesman, said he expects that enough people will agree to redirect their GoFundMe contributions for the group to retain a sizable portion of the funds.
Rather than financing federal efforts to build the wall, We Build The Wall plans to go the route that its name suggests and finance construction on its own, according Stockton. He said the group to secure enough funding from its initial GoFundMe supporters to build at least two miles along the southern border, which is nearly 2,000 miles long.
The group has already been in touch with landowners in Texas about buying or leasing their land for wall construction, Stockton said. Its also retained two law firms to deal with regulatory issues that are sure to dog the project, including Barnes & Thornburg and Foley & Lardner. Cleta Mitchell, an attorney with the latter, who Stockton said is working with the new nonprofit, is a prominent conservative lawyer representing a host of political and nonprofit groups aligned with President Trumps agenda.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)JNelson6563
(28,151 posts)Since the organizer would not. Those lunatics you cite won't get a penny of it.
riversedge
(70,214 posts)to there new organization. We shall see.
JNelson6563
(28,151 posts)handmade34
(22,756 posts)the people who donated have the option of directing the money to www.webuildthewall.us... if they do not reply, then the money will be refunded
JNelson6563
(28,151 posts)complete misappropriation. The money won't just be given over to those assholes, it has to be knowingly donated (re-donated then?) by every single donor.
Completely different.
handmade34
(22,756 posts)but the board members are still assholes
I would be interested to see how many gullible people decide to let them keep the money
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)A bit more information from a poster at Daily Kos:
Terms of gofundme program changed; money to be refunded.
So apparently the fools will not be permanently parted from their money.
In It to Win It
(8,250 posts)Rocky888
(297 posts)To build his vanity wall?
Like he handed the whole VA money over for his Mara lago buddies to handle and run.
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