Uh huh, he'll totes get all the permits needed to build a wall on federally and privately owned land.
... Hopefully he spends it on a new yacht.
Brianna Sacks @bri_sacks
The $20million Build the Wall campaign is getting refunded. @gofundme is refunding everyone (~330,000 people) who donated because, according to a spokesperson, Brian Kolfage broke the original promise of the campaign to give the money back if they didn't reach their goal pic.twitter.com/3HDAzTqrgf
3. Our highly experienced team is highly confident that we can complete significant segments of the wall in less time, and for far less money, than the federal government, while meeting or exceeding all required regulatory, engineering, and environmental specifications.
Brianna Sacks @bri_sacks
The $20million Build the Wall campaign is getting refunded. @gofundme is refunding everyone (~330,000 people) who donated because, according to a spokesperson, Brian Kolfage broke the original promise of the campaign to give the money back if they didn't reach their goal pic.twitter.com/3HDAzTqrgf
That's pretty much every crowdfunding campaign. There's typically a big initial rush as news of it spreads around, a significant dropoff over time, then another bump just before the end.Wow, who would have predicted that the donations to this GFM campaign would have slowed down so much. Wasn't it 10 mil after a couple of days? It's only at 20 million after 25 days. Weird.
Conglomerate of shitty racist trash?I've been following news too closely when I can recognize almost everyone on this who's who list. Dear lord.
Grifter's League?
Morally Bankrupt Consortium?
Whatever the going rate is multiplied by 330k backers. It's pegged to them and not the dollar amount. Whatever the final value is Gofundme isn't going to be paying for that and that's fine. These people lucked out to not get extra screwed while this shut down is in effect.How much does it cost in processing fees to refund $20 million?
Brianna Sacks @bri_sacks
The $20million Build the Wall campaign is getting refunded. @gofundme is refunding everyone (~330,000 people) who donated because, according to a spokesperson, Brian Kolfage broke the original promise of the campaign to give the money back if they didn't reach their goal pic.twitter.com/3HDAzTqrgf
Parents that had kids killed by illegal immigrants.
usually there is no processing fee on a refund.How much does it cost in processing fees to refund $20 million?
racist parents.
Do parents of kids killed by white Americans in senseless mass shootings get a name like that?
I'm too lazy to look up GFM rules, but maybe there's a settlement period, especially for not yet funded things? So maybe they hadn't actually some or most of the money to him yet?usually there is no processing fee on a refund.
the bigger question is, are they doing this out of their own pocket? It sounds like he still has all of the funds. So are they going to pursue action against him.
https://www.gofundme.com/thetrumpwall (go to the most recent update from 10 minutes ago, January 10th, 2019).
There is more at the update, if you're curious, but this gets the point across. I added the bold for emphasis. Note that Erik Prince is involved. Also note, the remainder of the update identifies that people need to opt in to this change of plans, or else their donation will be refunded (thanks for pointing this out, Dracil).
So, this is the pivot y'all were expecting. Homie is gonna take money for himself and pay a bunch of friends and vultures and that money is gonna go poof, if you were to ask me.
These sources say the funds will be refunded to donors
https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/11/wall-gofundme-trump-border-wall-brian-kolfage/
Behind a paywall:
https://www.businessinsider.com/gofundme-refunding-donations-build-the-wall-fundraiser-2019-1