A GoFundMe campaign is seeking to “Make America safe again” by declaring “We The People Will Fund The Wall.” In just four days, the account has raised over $12 million from donations from more than 200,000 people. But now, NBC News is sounding the alarm over the man who founded it, Iraq War veteran and three-time amputee Brian Kolfage.
NBC’s beef with Kolfage is a recent business venture he doesn’t mention in his bio sketch on the Build the Wall GoFundMe page: a Facebook page pulled by the platform titled Right Wing News “and a ring of affiliate sites that frequently trafficked in conspiracy theories.”
Asked by NBC about failing to note his connection to Right Wing News or Fight4FreeSpeech, Kolfage said he didn’t want those projects to be a “distraction” to the wall fundraising effort, which has a billion-dollar goal.
“We have someone who is tied in with the White House that’s in their inner-circle,” Kolfage told NBC about the wall-funding project. “We can work on a way where we can guarantee with a contract where [the funding] can only go to the wall.”
Though NBC is clearly encouraging contributors to be skeptical about the account, the page continues to thrive, surpassing $12 million in just four days.- READ MORE