Posted on 12/20/2018 10:11:33 AM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
A campaign aimed at raising money for a border wall on the crowdfunding website GoFundMe has raised more than $4 million of its $1 billion goal in under four days.
The page, called "We The People Will Fund The Wall," was started by Brian Kolfage, a Purple Heart recipient and triple amputee who lost his legs and an arm during a rocket attack in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
The campaign was launched earlier this week with a goal of raising $1 billion to donate to the construction of a wall along the southern border of the U.S. Funding for the wall, a major campaign promise of President Donald Trump, has come under questioning in recent weeks as Trump first hard-lined funding negotiations, then retreated.
Trump threatened a partial government shutdown if Congress couldn't pass a budget that included funding for the wall, which Democrats staunchly opposed. He later backed down from the threat, saying he'd find funding another way and allowing for the passage of a funding bill that'd avert a shutdown. Advertisement
Kolfage said it's now "our duty as citizens" to raise money for a border wall. In three days, the campaign has raised more than $4 million from nearly 70,000 donors.
"Like a majority of those American citizens who voted to elect President Donald J Trump, we voted for him to Make America Great Again," Kolfage wrote in the campaign. "President Trump's main campaign promise was to BUILD THE WALL. And as he's followed through on just about every promise so far, this wall project needs to be completed still."
Kolfage said the cap is set at $1 billion because that is all GoFundMe allows. He said he is trying to get them to raise the limit.
"If the 63 million people who voted for Trump each pledge $80, we can build the wall," he wrote. "That equates to roughly $5 billion, even if we get half, that's half the wall. We can do this."
We’re up to 7.3. Everyone needs to share this on all their social media platforms.
I donated, but did not get a response back from GoFundMe, as I have always done. I am suspicious about this. May be a scam.
some MSM pick ups
As Trump holds out for border wall funding from Congress, GoFundMe ...
CNBC-2 hours ago
A fundraiser to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border has raised nearly $5 million in three days on the online platform GoFundMe.
Border wall GoFundMe hits $7 million, and still climbing
KGUN-21 minutes ago
Triple-amputee veteran’s GoFundMe to pay for Trump’s border wall ...
Military Times-4 hours ago
Border wall fundraiser hits more than $3 million as donations from ...
TheBlaze.com-6 hours ago
GoFundMe for border wall raises nearly $7 million from 110k donors
CBS News-2 hours ago
GoFundMe Page For Donald Trump’s Border Wall Raises More Than ...
Highly Cited-Newsweek-Dec 19, 2018
Same here.
“””I am doing the same. I want to donate, but I want to be sure the money can for sure be used for the border wall; then I will donate.”””
I’ve donated twice, including one about an hour ago. I’ve received the gofundme confirmations both times, though today’s took a little longer to receive.
Yes, GFM confirmation took longer than usual. Just chalked it up to the sheer volume of donations they were contending with.
starting to get big time legs...
Looks like another Fox appearance tomorrow too
• FOX NEWS : 12/20 Laura Ingraham Tonight at 10pm EST in the works, will let you know.
• FOX NEWS BUSINESS: 12/21 Mornings With Maria
Very good news
With that press picking it up I expect it will get over 10 before it starts to slow down.
So far, they’ve funded ‘The People’s Mile’.
“This mile represented the moment, having realized they had been utterly betrayed for decades by the people they elected to represent them, average citizens pooled their resources beyond those confiscated from them in taxation to defend themselves from invasion.”
libs on twitter not happy...
to sum up: those funding the wall are rich, white, racist , etc , etc
I think I will make a weekly donation just to upset them
I imagine President Trump will be heartened by this full-throated support from the Americans who voted for him. I hope it encourages him to keep fighting the good fight.
many on twitter are mad at gofundme and demanding they shut it down because its ‘racist”
Now 8 million dollars
$8,027,374
Just now at $8,488,305! I happily donated. I don’t know what could actually come of this, but I’m loving the message we’re sending with it!
Can we use PayPal to contribute? I get between five and ten solicitation calls a day as it is. I hope this won’t add me to another sucker list. I’m fairly sure “charities’ sell their donor lists to each other.
UPDATE
$9,082,034 of $1.0B goal RAISED
8:36 P.M. est
Just passed the 10 million dollar mark :-)
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