The GoFundMe campaign launched by retired United States Air Force triple amputee, Brian Kolfage, to fund President Donald Trump’s USA-Mexico border wall has raised $4.6 million of the targetted $1 billion in just three days.
The military veteran’s crowdsourced campaign as of Thursday evening has gotten donations from 75,424 people.
Kolfage, a triple amputee who won a Purple Heart while serving in Iraq, proposed on the GoFundMe page that if every one of the 63 million people who voted for Trump donated $80, they would get the wall that Trump promised them.
According to The Washington Post, the 37-year-old Air Force veteran said that he decided to start the campaign on Sunday because “political games from both parties” have been holding back funding for the wall.
He said his campaign, “We The People Will Fund The Wall,” was about “giving the people the power.”
“It’s time to stop playing games with voters,” Kolfage said. “If we are told we’re getting something, make it happen.”
Kolfage assured donors that he would find a way to ensure that “100 per cent” of your donations will go to the Trump Wall.”
Kolfage said he has established contact with the Trump administration.
Kolfage’s campaign is far from the only private plan seeking to help the president pay for the wall, but is by far the most successful to date. Dozens of people have attempted to launch GoFundMe campaigns to help Trump fulfil his most ardent campaign promise, with most flopping after raising between a couple hundred to a couple thousand dollars, or even nothing.
Kolfage, however, has one thing the others don’t: the distinguished status as “the most severely wounded airman” to survive his injuries in history, as he put it on his website.
