Donors to the ‘We Build the Wall’ GoFundMe Page Want to Know Where the Wall Is

By David Boddiger  |  May 12, 2019 | 7:53pm
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A GoFundMe Page called “We Build the Wall” has managed to
raise well over $22 million from hundreds of thousands of donors over the past
five months.

Run by an anti-immigration, triple-amputee, Iraq War
veteran named Brian Kolfage, the GoFundMe
page promises to build segments of President Donald Trump’s “wall” on
private land along the southern U.S. border “for a fraction of what it costs
the government.” The page received nearly $13 million in just five days after
it was launched late last year.

One snag, though, is that to date, there is no sign of any groundbreaking
having occurred on the project, despite promises by Kolfage that it would start
in late April.

Now, some donors are beginning to grow concerned that
perhaps they were duped. The Daily Beast’s Will Sommer reported
on donor concerns on Friday.

“Since We Build the Wall blew their April deadline, Twitter
replies to Kolfage and the group’s Facebook page have filled up with angry
donors,” Sommer wrote.

One reason public confidence was built around the page is
that well-known pro-Trump conservatives signed onto the project, including former Kansas
Secretary of State Kris Kobach and former
White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon.

Last January, Kolfage told The New York Times the group had secured
land from landowners, and that it would begin breaking ground “within
weeks.” But like most details of the project, Kolfage has kept his plans
shrouded in secrecy.

According to Sommer, Kolfage said in March that he couldn’t
reveal locations where the wall would be built because of the American Civil
Liberties Union and “these other liberal groups that want to sue and impede our
progress.”

But last December, BuzzFeed
News reported that Kolfage “has an extensive history of creating and
profiting from fake, inflammatory news and conspiracy theories.”

Per BuzzFeed:

The websites’ headlines often screamed about how Muslims
were raping and harming innocent women, children, and service members; how
Hillary Clinton was hiding deathly illnesses; and how billionaire Democratic
donor George Soros was funding domestic terrorists. Stories like “Obama’s
Pedophile Secret OUT After Department Of Defense Releases Startling Memo To
Public” would often appear on multiple sites and Facebook pages, spreading them
to a wider audience.

Yikes.

On Saturday, Kolfage posted a message on the group’s Facebook page stating, “there’s no update because we are remaining silent for a
very good reason. You will all have the best present very soon.”

He claimed to be “working with many congressmen and senators
to help us mitigate these issues from the left wing attack groups.”

Kolfage added that details of
the project are “on a need to know basis.”

Good to know.

 
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