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  • Just so anyone thinking of donating to the wall building gofundme account. Buyer beware. Run by a known scam artist according to this. Host doing the video is unafraid to name names. Don't pay attention to the computer driven written word translation. It's flawed.

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  • another lie from texag - the veteran isn't perfect - but it's no scam - just didn't work - they couldn't use the funds as they said, legally, so it's all getting refunded. Tex is all fake news.

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    GoFundMe that raised $20 million for border wall will return funds

    Jan 11, 2019 - The campaign, titled "We The People Will Build the Wall," raised $20 million from 337,518 people in 25 days, and has been shared nearly ...
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    https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/11/gofundme-that-raised-20-million-for-border-wall-will-return-funds.html

    In December, Brian Kolfage, a veteran and self-described motivational speaker, launched an ambitious GoFundMe campaign to raise $1 billion for the proposed wall. The campaign, titled “We The People Will Build the Wall,” raised $20 million from 337,518 people in 25 days, and has been shared nearly 100,000 times.

    But Business Insider reports that the funds will now be returned to donors. Bobby Whithorne, a GoFundMe spokesman, told the publication that Kolfage promised donors at the campaign’s outset that donations would be used to fund the wall, if the proposed $1 billion was raised. “However, that did not happen,” Whithorne said. “This means all donors will receive a refund.”

    “When I created this fundraiser, I said if we did not reach our goal we will refund donors,” Kolfage wrote in an update posted to the campaign’s page earlier today. “I am honoring that commitment today. If you want a refund for your donation, no need to do anything. You will receive your refund a few weeks after the 90 days expires and GoFundMe will notify you once your refund has processed. If you would prefer a refund now, you can request that here: https://bit.ly/2smynWq. ”

    Kolfage writes that he consulted with “politics, national security, construction, and finance” experts and came to several conclusions, including that “The federal government won’t be able to accept our donations anytime soon” and “We are better equipped than our own government to use the donated funds to build an actual wall on the southern border.”

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    Just so anyone thinking of donating to the wall building gofundme account. Buyer beware. Run by a known scam artist according to this. Host doing the video is unafraid to name names. Don't pay attention to the computer driven written word translation. It's flawed.

    @texasag1969 said:

    Just so anyone thinking of donating to the wall building gofundme account.

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  • https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/25/us/politics/kris-kobach-wall-funding.html

    "After raising nearly $20 million, the organization was forced to contact donors because it hadn’t reached its initial goal of $1 billion. At that point, contributions would be automatically returned to donors unless they opted back in. Mr. Kobach said that efforts to retain contributors had been very successful, with 94 percent of those contacted transferring the money into the new effort."

    So you are both right. This guy is a con artist who started an org off of the back of that money but the money was going to be returned before he started conning people into letting him keep it.

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  • The back story on Kolfage is pretty damning. He seems like an idiot but he found a whole bunch of other idiots to give him millions of dollars. So he is an alpha idiot?

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