{"id":11496,"date":"2019-01-05T17:21:07","date_gmt":"2019-01-05T21:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=11496"},"modified":"2019-01-05T17:21:09","modified_gmt":"2019-01-05T21:21:09","slug":"kobach-gofundme-campaign-for-border-wall-will-shatter-all-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/kobach-gofundme-campaign-for-border-wall-will-shatter-all-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Kobach: GoFundMe Campaign for Border Wall Will Shatter All Records"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/replace-section-us-mexico-border-wall-fence-sept-2018-getty-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/replace-section-us-mexico-border-wall-fence-sept-2018-getty-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/replace-section-us-mexico-border-wall-fence-sept-2018-getty-640x480-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption> <br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/news-photo\/workers-in-el-paso-texas-in-the-us-replace-a-section-of-the-news-photo\/1041385840\" target=\"_blank\">HERIKA MARTINEZ\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/a> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Breitbart, by Kris W. Kobach &#8212; 1\/5\/2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Excerpts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em><strong>We are witnessing something truly extraordinary.\u00a0In merely 19 days, a GoFundMe campaign to raise private contributions to build sections of the wall along the Mexico border has <\/strong><\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/TheTrumpWall\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>raised<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em><strong> an astonishing $19.0 million.\u00a0It will soon be the most successful GoFundMe campaign ever\u2014the current <\/strong><\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/gofundme-trumps-border-wall-closes-19-million-second-largest-2018-1277898\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>record<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em><strong> holder is the Time\u2019s Up Legal Defense Fund for victims of sexual assault, which raised $22 million in 2018 over a much longer period of time.\u00a0The campaign to build the wall should blow past that number in a few days.<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The GoFundMe wall campaign was <\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/gofundme-trumps-border-wall-closes-19-million-second-largest-2018-1277898\" target=\"_blank\"><em>started<\/em><\/a><em> on December 16, 2018, by Air Force veteran Brian Kolfage, who lost three limbs while serving in Iraq in 2004.\u00a0As Kolfage told me,\u00a0\u201cPeople are angry about the inaction on building the border wall.\u00a0They\u2019re opening their checkbooks to donate as a way of making their voices heard.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>View the complete article including image, links and comments at:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2019\/01\/05\/gofundme-campaign-border-wall-shatter-records\/\">https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2019\/01\/05\/gofundme-campaign-border-wall-shatter-records\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breitbart, by Kris W. Kobach &#8212; 1\/5\/2019 Excerpts: We are witnessing something truly extraordinary.\u00a0In merely 19 days, a GoFundMe campaign to raise private contributions to build sections of the wall along the Mexico border has raised an astonishing $19.0 million.\u00a0It &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/kobach-gofundme-campaign-for-border-wall-will-shatter-all-records\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11496"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11500,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11496\/revisions\/11500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}