A GoFundMe initially designed to fund the wall is now under strict scrutiny. The Daily Caller reports:
Remember the GoFundMe Wall that reached several million dollars? It’s looking less and less transparent. The Daily Caller reports:
The founder of the viral $20 million border wall GoFundMe campaign is refusing to answer basic questions about his new nonprofit organization that will use donor funds to construct a piecemeal wall mile-by-mile along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Triple-amputee Air Force veteran Brian Kolfage is asking donors to transfer their donationsto We Build The Wall, Inc. following his announcement Friday that the federal government will not accept any funds from his viral fundraising campaign, despite his initial claim otherwise.
GoFundMe said Friday that donors will need to opt into transferring their donations to Kolfage’s new Florida-based nonprofit by April 10, when all remaining contributions will be automatically refunded.
Kolfage claims the bylaws of We Build The Wall, Inc. prevent him from taking any salary from donor funds that originate from GoFundMe. But Kolfage has refused to provide The Daily Caller News Foundation a copy of the nonprofit’s bylaws to corroborate his claim.
You’re dealing with a patriot, not an ememy wihtin 2faced democrat!
Ok! I’ll brag!!! I donated on day 3! What a concept…a way to make an example of the US Government and their inability to work for the will of the people…which is their Constitutional promise! So the pile of money gets sent to the place doing the stalling. AND every contribution is a counted vote from the disappointed voting citizenry!
I looked twice a day or more to follow the $ amounts and the #’s and thought it was one of the greatest shows of opinion ever! And then the fateful news in an update…that the very Government who extorts funds out of its people on a daily basis for misuse (I.E. Social Security), is not going to accept the funds! Preposterous! So now the organizers are going to change the purpose of the Go Fund Me account to something else! We The People will build our own wall! A “right and proper”
effort, with designs and engineering and everything!
So what’s going to happen?? Maybe there will come a “right and proper” effort come out of this, on private property, as is state Department! AND maybe this will be a truly good effort to show the Government how the “cow ate the cabbage”! But likely, when and if the Government finally gets around to their effort, they will likely deem the other effort “not structurally sound, or compatible, or improperly located”, and they will bypass or demolish our wall! Making the entire effort useless…
And I’m not trying to cast any shadows over the organizers…in a perfect world, this would work!
Well…that’s just one guys opinion! I asked for my money back, however if it doesn’t get refunded, it’ll give me the right to say, in a.cool clear tone, “I told you so!
I trust a Veteran over any politician or any fake news outlet. We already know politicians and news outlets lie through their teeth. I donated and I opted to have my money moved to the nom profit organization. If Pelosi or Schumer get their greedy hands on it they will steal it and give it to illegals.
The problems are OBVIOUS — too many people came out of the woodwork which indicated to EVERYONE just how popular the ‘wall’ concept really is. Pelosi and Schumer could not allow such a blatant repudiation of their ‘party line’ to go unchallenged. I seriously doubt that the effort would actually support an major work on the wall but it DID “show up” those who are trying to discourage its’ construction.
I trust kofage & every one that to run him down can kiss my ass
I trust Brian and will be unsubscribing from you crap
Mr. Kolfage has posted a clear and complete explanation of the legal need to change the organizational structure administering the campaign. Anyone who cares to can go to the GoFundMe campaign page and read it. Also, an e-mail was sent to every contributor asking them to confirm that they want their contribution to continue to go to the newly revised organizational structure. There is nothing sinister or even questionable about it. Anyone who has actually given to the campaign — instead of just sitting back looking to criticize it — would know this.
This is JUST AS MUCH a disinformation campaign as the campaign to frame President Trump and anyone associated with the administration for collusion, sexual abuse, and anything else that they think they can trick the poorly-informed into falling for.
Anyone who reprints this disinformation campaign without bothering to actually investigate it — including fake conservative websites and newsletters that prey on real conservative patriots and are just using them to glean pay-per-click Google advertising dollars, like apparently this one — should be ashamed.
Frankly he gave up his body parts and his life to serve this country in a war made by our government over drugs.
This money better damn well end up at a GOVERNMENT PAC for Funding the wall, but if not, if he does take some of it: How much are your Legs worth, in an Accident with a Billionaire to whom the accident is his fault?
Frankly he gave up his body parts and his life to serve this country in a war made by our government over drugs.
This money better damn well end up at a GOVERNMENT PAC for Funding the wall, but if not, if he does take some of it: How much are your Legs worth, in an Accident with a Billioner to whom the accident is his fault?
You don’t know if THIS that your reading is true or fake! There is a good chance that this story is fake!
Kolfage is taking a HUGE risk if he or anyone in his ‘camp” is not legit. Were not talking petty cash here. Boy Oh Boy I sure hope he knows the consequences IF……….
Fake news. Fake fake fake
If the money from the GoFundMeWall goes to the U.S. Government coffers, just kiss the money good buy and it is probably good that the government is not able to accept the money! So now, the donors can either get their money refunded or they can trust Kolfage to use the money to actually build the wall!