UPDATE: This Air Force Veteran Started a GoFundMe Campaign for Trump’s Wall…and Raised How Much Again?
Editor’s note: see the updated story below about how the GoFundMe wall funding has now surpassed $15 million!
By Townhall. Well, there could be a government shutdown this week, or not. Either way, whatever is cooked up on the Hill; there will be probably be no wall funding. The Senate has put forward a stopgap measure will fund the government until February, but we don’t know what the president is going to do. Still, there have to be mounting frustration over the lack of progress with regards to the wall, a key and must-do action item for the administration. It formed the cornerstone of his 2016 campaign. So, with no wall, one Air Force veteran decided to take matters in his own hands, starting a GoFundMe campaign that amassed over $500,000 in two days. (Read more from “This Air Force Veteran Started a GoFundMe Campaign for Trump’s Wall…and Raised How Much Again?” HERE)
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Purple Heart Air Force Veteran, 37, Who Lost Both His Legs and an Arm, Creates GoFundMe Campaign to Build Trump’s Border Wall, Raising Nearly $1MILLION
By Daily Mail. A Florida Air Force veteran has raised nearly $1million to build President Donald Trump’s promised border wall.
Triple amputee Brian Kolfage, 37, created the GoFundMe account on Sunday titled We The People Will Fund The Wall, and in three days has already raised over $900,000 of its $1billion goal.
‘It’s up to Americans to help out and pitch in to get this project rolling,’ the page reads. ‘If the 63 million people who voted for Trump each pledge $80, we can build the wall.’
Trump is demanding $5billion to build the southern border wall with Mexico, and is threatening to shut down the government if he can’t get the funding.
The fundraising page says it has contacted the Trump Administration to secure a point of contact where all the funds will go, but adds it has ‘many very high level contacts already helping’. (Read more from “Purple Heart Air Force Veteran, 37, Who Lost Both His Legs and an Arm, Creates GoFundMe Campaign to Build Trump’s Border Wall, Raising Nearly $1MILLION” HERE)
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Air Force Veteran’s GoFundMe Campaign Now Exceeds $15,000,000. Transgender’s GoFundMe Raises $127k
Two competing GoFundMe pages – one raising money to fund President Trump’s border wall and another raising money for ladders for migrants to use to surmount that wall – are both continuing to rack up quite a bit of cash.
The original crowdfunding campaign, entitled We The People Will Fund The Wall, surpassed $15million on Saturday, on its way to lofty $1billion goal.
More than 250,000 people have donated to the page since it was created on Sunday by Brian Kolfage, a triple amputee Air Force veteran.
The campaign description says in part: ‘It’s time we uphold our laws, and get this wall BUILT! It’s up to Americans to help out and pitch in to get this project rolling.’
On Wednesday Charlotte Clymer, a transgender woman and human rights activist from Texas, launched her own fundraising page in response, titled Ladders to Get Over Trump’s Wall. (Read more about the Air Force Veteran’s GoFundMe HERE)
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