Posted on 08/22/2020 10:15:33 AM PDT by conservative98
Kolfage, a Purple Heart veteran who lost an arm and two legs in Iraq in 2004, was arrested at his home in Florida and is accused of being the main beneficiary of the scam, allegedly pocketing a staggering $350,000 of donor money while he and his wife flaunted their extravagant lifestyles on social media.
Newly resurfaced footage of the pair taken on June 24, 2019 shows the two men openly laughing and joking about peddling money from the border wall scheme, more than a year before the feds swooped in.
In the video, part of We Build The Wall's 'Wall-A-Thon' fundraiser to draw in donors to the scheme, Bannon boasts that they are on board Kolfage's 'million-dollar yacht' and laughs that the veteran 'took all that money' from the scheme.
'Welcome back and this is Stephen K. Bannon,' Bannon says to the camera, while sitting next to Kolfage.
'We're off the coast of Saint-Tropez in southern France, in the Mediterranean. We're on the million-dollar yacht of Brian Kolfage.'
The two men look at each other and laugh as Bannon pats Kolfage on the shoulder.
'Brian Kolfage - who took all that money from Build The Wall,' Bannon adds, while Kolfage continues to smile at his alleged co-conspirator.
Bannon then says: 'No, we're actually in Sunland Park, New Mexico.'
Social media users were baffled at the footage, which, based on the allegations made against the two men this week, point to an inside joke about the scam that was very much under way at the time.
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He made the mistake of doing something in NY.
The point of “crowdfunding” is to allow people to feel good about themselves.
350K is small potatoes compared to the money La Pierre and the Clintons milk from their non-profits.
Seems dubious that the go-fund-me promise to not take expenses would apply once they organizers closed it down and turned it into a non-profit.
WAIT!
Don’t George Floyd (aka George Kirby, George Taylor, Floyd Taylor) Steve Bannon and Brian Kolfage like everybody did to Derek Chauvin.
Everything is not always as it first seems.
Let the band wagon roll on for a few miles before you jump on.
Most likely joking about the allegation made about them; but you have to be kinda brainless to joke about something like that and have it recorded on social media. HELLO — there are people out there who are trying to get us.
Best post of the thread... worthy to be posted twice.
No doubt, and it's a travesty that they haven't been brought to justice. I think that the solution is to stop letting crooks get away with it. All of the crooks, Democrats and Republicans.
My understanding is that 99% of donor money actually went to building the wall. They may have pocketed 1%. I need more facts before I totally condemn these guys. I will say that I personally dealt with Bannon on a matter and he was completely anal about following the law.
People gotta learn there can be only one Clinton Foundation.
Two sets of laws, little peeples, and POLITICIANS!
If Bannon is guilty of what he’s been accused of, I’m not sure I’d call that a slight “gap in your armor.”
Believe it or not! SNOPES!
“Did the Wall GoFundMe Founder Use the Money to Buy a Yacht?
In 2019, we found no evidence Brian Kolfage purchased a yacht — or any other personal items — with money raised for building a border wall. But in August 2020, organization leaders were indicted on fraud charges.
BETHANIA PALMA
PUBLISHED 15 MAY 2019
UPDATED 20 AUGUST 2020”
“He purchased the vessel in question for $675,000, paid mostly up front, after selling another boat in the summer of 2018 — a full six months before the border wall stalemate and GoFundMe campaign started, Kolfage told us in an email. “
In case you missed it...
a full six months before the border wall stalemate and GoFundMe campaign started
I wouldn’t come to any conclusions based on that.
I think he is pleased that he is a genuine “big wheeler”. He drives a hard bargain and is simply amused with taking the easy way out. He believes he can control those who step over the line. I think you are correct. He gleans useful information from these types and doesn’t care what others think. I like Roger too but again, like you, I wouldn’t invest money with him.
I think you would find Bannon and Stone far more honest than ANY corrupt Dem, Biden Clinton, Pelosi, ANY of them!! I would have absolutely NO PROBLEM donating to Stone OR Bannon!! YES I donated to the WE BUILD THE WALL 2x and I would do it again!! This project gave a TRIPLE amputee war veteran a very busy purpose in life and he delivered the wall in the area promised!!
So they’ve been convicted?
I’m basing this assumption solely on the posts here.
True dat:
Color me disgusted with almost all of you! Do ANY of you believe in the presumption of innocence? In this day when we the people are facing relentless lies and attacks from the media, from leftist politicians, and the “deep state” — all I suspect agents of cartels and Chinese communists, why would we believe ANYTHING.
We are all of us flawed human beings, but we are all from Donald Trump to quite young people, patriots who love our country and dismayed with the breathtaking dishonestly and destruction from the left. The left does this, fake criminal accusations, show trials and kangaroo courts. This is a classic communistic tactic. Now they go after prominent conservative voices, some day they will go after you with lies and fake charges!
Color me skeptical.
Shame on the lot of you. I see this over and over again here among so-called conservatives who claim to be classical liberals who, as I stated above, and often before, that it seems you do not believe in the presumption of innocence — and we certainly should believe it of our own.
Exactly.
We're dealing with Democrat political scum from SDNY.
These are the same kind of pieces of Mitt that went after Michael Flynn.
Remember how that cop killed George Floyd.............
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