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brooklynite

(94,331 posts)
Fri Jan 11, 2019, 04:54 PM Jan 2019

GoFundMe refunding entirety of $20 million "Build the Wall" campaign

Source: Axios

GoFundMe is refunding all $20 million that was raised for the "Build the Wall" campaign, after the man who started broke his promise of returning donor money if the campaign didn't reach its goal," BuzzFeed News' Brianna Sacks reports.

Details: The GoFundMe, which had a $1 billion target, was started by veteran Brian Kolfage. Kolfage wrote on the campaign's page that after consultation with experts, he decided to take the $20 million raised and form a non-profit called "We Build the Wall, Inc." in order to complete segments of the wall for lower costs than the government has estimated. A GoFundMe spokesman responded by saying that unless the donors make it clear they want their funds to be directed to the non-profit, "they will automatically receive a full refund."

Read more: https://www.axios.com/gofundme-refunding-entirety-of-20-million-build-the-wall-campaign-f32d0818-8468-4caf-abd3-44ff221b7fdc.html

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GoFundMe refunding entirety of $20 million "Build the Wall" campaign (Original Post) brooklynite Jan 2019 OP
Grifters gonna grift tparrett62 Jan 2019 #1
Plea for $ to FUND A STUPID WALL CountAllVotes Jan 2019 #3
update CountAllVotes Jan 2019 #14
republicans are so skanky, with such super-skanky values Achilleaze Jan 2019 #2
Just went to the site tparrett62 Jan 2019 #4
'magine many/most of these names didn't know they were on the board. erronis Jan 2019 #6
Don't refund it, let the dummies lose their money, just less going to tRump.nt mastermind Jan 2019 #5
He's no different than dotard. His last fund raising gig was a get rich quick scheme as well Thekaspervote Jan 2019 #7
not entirety... handmade34 Jan 2019 #8
To think, over Christmas, Lunabell Jan 2019 #9
First thing I would check is if he really is a veteran. louis-t Jan 2019 #10
Didn't see that coming. Dave Starsky Jan 2019 #11
Of course he was going to grift it. joshcryer Jan 2019 #12
He said he was doing that within the first three days obamanut2012 Jan 2019 #13
Should send it to contact workers who will never be "paid back" question everything Jan 2019 #15
looks like GFM is going to onethatcares Jan 2019 #16
Morans! Morans! MORONS! CountAllVotes Jan 2019 #19
GoFundMe Border Wall Campaign Implodes, Turns to Kris Kobach and Sheriff Clarke riversedge Jan 2019 #17
Ohhhh ... and they were so close, too! marble falls Jan 2019 #18

tparrett62

(268 posts)
1. Grifters gonna grift
Fri Jan 11, 2019, 04:56 PM
Jan 2019

He may be a triple amputee disabled Vet, but that doesn't automatically mean he's a saint. I'm sure everyone here has read up on this guy, and he's definitely got a shady past.

CountAllVotes

(20,866 posts)
14. update
Fri Jan 11, 2019, 06:36 PM
Jan 2019

Gee no more photo-shopped picture of the blond wifey and the two blond kids to be found!

AND ....

Now this ...


If you want a refund for your donation, no need to do anything. You will receive your refund a few weeks after the 90 days expires and GoFundMe will notify you once your refund has processed. If you would prefer a refund now, you can request that here: https://bit.ly/2smynWq


duh ...



tparrett62

(268 posts)
4. Just went to the site
Fri Jan 11, 2019, 05:00 PM
Jan 2019

Here's the "advisory board" of the new alleged non-profit. Lots of the usual RW suspects:

Brigadier General Dr. Robert S. Spalding III

Industrialist John Daniel Moran, Jr.

Ex-Navy SEAL and businessman Erik Prince,

Former Secretary of State of Kansas Kris Kobach,

Angel Mom Mary Ann Mendoza

Law enforcement and immigration expert Sheriff David Clarke

Fox news contributor and border security expert Sara A. Carter

Former Colorado Congressman and presidential candidate Tom Tancredo

Angel Dad Steve Ronnebeck

Media consultant and journalist Jennifer Lawrence

erronis

(15,177 posts)
6. 'magine many/most of these names didn't know they were on the board.
Fri Jan 11, 2019, 05:02 PM
Jan 2019

Evils tempting gullibles with stupids.

Perfect equation for disaster.

Thekaspervote

(32,704 posts)
7. He's no different than dotard. His last fund raising gig was a get rich quick scheme as well
Fri Jan 11, 2019, 05:06 PM
Jan 2019

That’s really good news!

Lunabell

(6,045 posts)
9. To think, over Christmas,
Fri Jan 11, 2019, 05:28 PM
Jan 2019

they made donations to a wall. A hateful wall instead of real "Christian" charity. Sad.

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)
11. Didn't see that coming.
Fri Jan 11, 2019, 05:45 PM
Jan 2019

Trump's supporters worship the God King of idiot con artists. They are all ripe, swollen, and juicy plums for the grifter harvest.

They are the gold standard fools from whom money is soon parted.

obamanut2012

(26,046 posts)
13. He said he was doing that within the first three days
Fri Jan 11, 2019, 06:02 PM
Jan 2019

That, he would give the money to some wingnut non-profit if they didn't reach $1 billion or if the government coulnd't take the money. So, within the first few days, he publicly said on GFM he was breaking the TOS.

He also doesn't explain in his latest update how 1. they can take land to build the wall 2. build a wall on a national border, which is illegal, and which Mexico won't allow 3. how they are building a wall even if 1 and 2 were legal, and 4. how much of the money os going to teh fake wall.

onethatcares

(16,161 posts)
16. looks like GFM is going to
Fri Jan 11, 2019, 07:01 PM
Jan 2019

get quite a bit of juice from all those donations while they sit collecting interest for 90 days.

The suckers are still donating, the webpage hasn't been taken down yet.

riversedge

(70,073 posts)
17. GoFundMe Border Wall Campaign Implodes, Turns to Kris Kobach and Sheriff Clarke
Fri Jan 11, 2019, 07:30 PM
Jan 2019







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 won’t 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 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

“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.”

QUESTIONABLE
NBC: Man Behind Border Wall GoFundMe Ran Fake News Websites

The group’s formation comes amidst heated fighting in Washington over financing for Trump’s border wall. A partial shutdown of the federal government has persisted for nearly three weeks as Trump and Democratic congressional leaders spar over the former’s demands for more than $5 billion in border wall funding.

Kolfage’s 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..................
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