Posted on 12/19/2018 1:27:32 PM PST by Red Badger
Triple-amputee Air Force veteran Brian Kolfage of Florida has decided that if the government isn’t going to do their job to keep America safe by securing the border, then he will.
But not alone, of course.
Kolfage has started a GoFundMe page to raise money for the U.S.-Mexico border wall that President Trump promised to build during his presidential campaign, but unfortunately, has hit a snag with getting it funded.
What’s truly insane about all of this is how much money Kolfage has managed to raise in just three days. You ready for this? He’s raised $400,000. Yowza.
Kolfage created the campaign on Sunday, which is titled “We the People Will Fund the Wall.”
The crowdfunding goal is $1 billion to help fund President Donald Trump’s U.S.-Mexico border wall — one of the president’s original campaign tent poles and a point of contention on both sides of the aisle.
Kolfage page states that “[i]t’s up to Americans to help out and pitch in to get this project rolling.”
“If the 63 million people who voted for Trump each pledge $80, we can build the wall,” Kolfage continues. “That equates to roughly $5 billion, even if we get half, that’s half the wall. We can do this.”
Kolfage adds that as a triple-amputee veteran with a family of his own, he feels it’s important to “ensure future generations have everything [U.S. citizens] have today.”
“As a veteran who has given so much, 3 limbs, I feel deeply invested to this nation to ensure future generations have everything we have today,” he writes. “Too many Americans have been murdered by illegal aliens and too many illegals are taking advantage of the United States taxpayers with no means of ever contributing to our society.”
Kolfage says that Democrats will stall the U.S-Mexico border wall “by every means possible” and will “play political games to ensure President Trump doesn’t get his victory.”
“They’d rather see President Trump fail than see America succeed,” he adds, calling the wall “our duty as citizens,” and compares it to the WWII generation raising war bonds.
“[If] we can fund a large portion of this wall, it will jumpstart things and will be less money Trump has to secure from our politicians.”
The crowdfunding page has now been shared on Facebook over 100,000 times as of the writing of the original source quoted above, and has been receiving donations by the minute. In fact, one donation alone was $5,000.
Now, what the left will want you to believe about this project is that, at it’s core, it’s racist. Folks want to keep out Mexicans because they hate the “brown man,” but that’s simply not true at all.
Florida Vet Starts Crowdfunding Campaign For Border Wall. The Amount He’s Raised In 3 Days Is Impressive.
I just looked and the amount raised is now up to 922 grand.
Wow!.................
Supportive and caring action. Way to go!
Ya, it’s building fast. But at the current rate it will take over 8 years to hit $5B. My wife and I both put in our $80. Hopfully it builds momentum, but even at a million a day, it would still take almost 3 years.
I am donating for sure.
Now THIS is a guy that isnt sitting around complaining!
I’ve never participated in something like this before, but yeah, I figured it out, put in 100, and hoping!
"THIS SECTION OF THE TEXAS EAGLE PASS BORDER WALL BROUGHT TO YOU BY TACO BELL!"
Hell, we could even point the side with advertising towards the Mexico side!
I would invest in a heartbeat if I knew there was a legally vetted entity that I knew for a fact could transfer the funds to actual construction.
I just don’t know the legalities. I totally agree with the concept.
Investigate before investing.
$944,322 of $1.0B goal
God bless this dear vet. He’s already given so much.
So hypothetically the wall gets built. The long term cost is 4x to maintain. It will never be maintained.$5 billion to this government is pocket change but government wants the illegals desperately (DNC want votes and GOPe want slave labor) so the wall will never be built.
Agree
BUT
WTF are ‘they’ thinking when ‘they’ balk at 5 Bill for PROTECTING us citizens, BUT turn around and GIVE 10 BILL to the countries that are sending their criminals to us???
And they wonder why ANYBODY who pays a tad of attention gets PO’d at them.
The real ‘crime’ is these clowns kept getting sent back to DC to help stick it to us over and over and over.
Tell your elected reps you’re giving the money to the wall that you’d planned to give to their reelection campaign.
1%.................
Run for the border?.....................
Brian Kolfage, the triple amputee Air Force veteran who is behind the #GoFundTheWall effort on GoFundMe, told The Gateway Pundit that he believes the crowdfunding site has begun censoring the fund to build the wall along our southern border.
In an update to supporters of the campaign, which is barrelling towards $700k in the first 48 hours, he alleges that it is becoming increasingly harder to find the #GoFundTheWall page through the search tool on GoFundMe. Kolfage is urging people to share the direct link on social media and with prospective donors in order to avoid confusion.
“GoFundMe removed our Trump Wall campaign from their top list. We are the top fundraiser right now and they removed it from the list. We were front and center on their homepage. Do they not want us to succeed?
Why are they suppressing us? Just like Facebook & Twitter have done, now GoFundme?
NOTE: They haven’t stopped us from fundraising. They just made it difficult for people to find us.”
Donate directly to the campaign by clicking here or sharing this link… https://www.gofundme.com/TheTrumpWall
It's crazy.
Doesn’t surprise me.
May they all be attacked by illegals...................
4 hours ago
GoFundMe put our campaign back in the trending list.
Here’s some media coverage, and we are working to get on Laura Ingraham tonight. Will have confirmation shortly.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6512077/GoFundMe-campaign-build-Trumps-border-wall-raises-400-000-two-days.html
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