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Old 12-24-2018, 06:53 AM   #1
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Read the Vile Hate Mail Sent to Triple Amputee Veteran Behind #GoFundTheWall

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/201...d-celebrities/


Deranged leftists have been sending triple-amputee veteran Brian Kolfage mountains of abuse after he was trashed by the Daily Beast, Jimmy Kimmel, Alyssa Milano and other high-profile liberals.

The hate mail provided to the Gateway Pundit contains appalling statements such as people asking if his brain was “amputated too,” calling him a “handicapped bitch,” telling him to commit suicide, wishing harm upon his children and mocking him for having lost his limbs while fighting for this nation.
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Here's the thing. I believe the guy and for full disclosure I donated $40 to the cause BUT what completely turns me off is the tip stuff. For this guy I'm happy to provide a tip for what he and his family sacrificed but some of the other causes not so much.
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Old 12-24-2018, 07:53 AM   #2
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But we should work with theses people.
We should compromise.
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Old 12-24-2018, 07:56 AM   #3
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But we should work with theses people.
We should compromise.
100% agree. The only compromise they accept is if they get 100% of what they want.
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Old 06-06-2019, 08:42 AM   #4
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The vile hate continues unabated as 7 year old Texas boy Benton Stevens raises thousands of dollars selling hot chocolate for Brian Kofages 'We Build the Wall'.
On Monday Zack Fox tweeted a photo of Benton sitting at his stand alongside an illustration of a man driving his vehicle straight into Stevens stand and if that isn't vile enough as of Wednesday morning nearly 100,000 people had 'liked' the tweet about running over a 7 year old Trump supporter.

Some of the tweets are the vilest replies I have ever seen!

"we Build the Wall" having raised 24 million dollars has just completed a 31% grade wall on private land in Sunland NM.

Cartel members can be seen returning to Mexico and are scouting the progress. They are about to begin a new section in Florida.

The tweet can be seen at BPR. "Nearly 100K cheered on a tweet about running over a pro-Trump child.
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Old 06-06-2019, 02:13 PM   #5
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Fascist radicals. Has little to do with politics. They're hate mongers.
They have no heart and seek no pity on their rotten souls.
They're paying the price by living hell right here on earth.
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Old 06-06-2019, 03:23 PM   #6
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I donated to Brian Kolfage's worthy cause. If you are a reasonable, smart-thinking person, you will, too.
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Old 06-06-2019, 04:09 PM   #7
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Brian Kolfage is a con man. The fact that he was wounded in a war does not alter that fact. From his Wikipedia page:
He has been connected with Facebook pages titled Right Wing News and Fight4FreeSpeech, although Facebook has since shut down Right Wing News.[7] Facebook also shut down Kolfage's Military Grade Coffee business page.[8] Kolfage allegedly created false narrative clickbait social media posts to discredit American politicians.[9] He also reportedly repeatedly created GoFundMe campaigns and used the false narrative stories to draw attention to the campaigns.[10] Through these methods he allegedly gathered a large list of email addresses of people who would be potentially willing to donate to conservative causes. A former staff member has saved a text message allegedly from Kolfage in which he references stealing or collecting the emails in order to build up his own email distribution.[11]

If you click on footnote nine of that Wikipedia article you get the following gems. (this is from a Buzzfeed article)
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Brian Kolfage, the decorated Iraq War veteran spearheading the massive, viral fundraising campaign to build President Trump’s border wall, who has a history of peddling right-wing misinformation on Facebook, pushed the limits of misleading content in pursuit of online traffic and profits until he was ultimately banned from the platform, according to multiple former employees and a review of internal communications.
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The 37-year-old has spent more than a decade carefully crafting his public persona as an altruistic, conservative public figure, but people who have worked with the veteran told BuzzFeed News he can be vengeful and malicious, and that the pursuit of profits above all else fueled his behavior.
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Former employees told BuzzFeed News that Kolfage instructed his crew to produce Facebook content to more flagrantly convey a false narrative, in one instance photoshopping former president Obama’s head onto another body to make it appear as though he was having an affair, with the caption, “BREAKING!! OBAMA BUSTED!!! VIDEO LEAKED!!”
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The veteran has tapped crowdfunding and his social media following to help raise money for a variety of issues and causes over the years, including his own legal fees against what he characterized as “radical left-wing extremists” who slandered him, according to 2014 court documents.

A year later, he used GoFundMe to collect $16,246 for a veteran mentorship program. The campaign closed in February 2015, and the funds went directly to Kolfage, Bobby Whithorne, a GoFundMe spokesperson, confirmed to BuzzFeed News.
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In now-deleted Facebook posts, Kolfage appealed to followers to donate to “get vets back on track” and said his program worked in conjunction with military hospitals, such as Walter Reed, Brooke Army Medical Center, and Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, which treated Kolfage in 2004 after the horrific explosion at Balad Air Base in Iraq that left him injured.

But representatives for all three medical centers told BuzzFeed News that they have no record of any peer-mentoring programs or Kolfage working with patients at their centers.

“We do not have a record of Mr. Kolfage visiting Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in any official capacity after 2012,” Gia E. Oney, chief of public affairs for Landstuhl, told BuzzFeed News. “We have no record of a donation made in his name to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center
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Eventually, Kolfage’s high visibility, record of harassment complaints, and manipulation of the platform got him permanently banned from the site, according to a Facebook spokesperson.
More to come, but let me end this post by saying that Kolfage deserves everything those emailers have said. Although I have strong suspicions that most of those are fake.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article...ation-facebook
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Anyone who trashes the POS Jimmy Kimmel is AOK in my book.
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The vile hate continues unabated as 7 year old Texas boy Benton Stevens raises thousands of dollars selling hot chocolate for Brian Kofages 'We Build the Wall'.
On Monday Zack Fox tweeted a photo of Benton sitting at his stand alongside an illustration of a man driving his vehicle straight into Stevens stand and if that isn't vile enough as of Wednesday morning nearly 100,000 people had 'liked' the tweet about running over a 7 year old Trump supporter.

Some of the tweets are the vilest replies I have ever seen!

"we Build the Wall" having raised 24 million dollars has just completed a 31% grade wall on private land in Sunland NM.

Cartel members can be seen returning to Mexico and are scouting the progress. They are about to begin a new section in Florida.

The tweet can be seen at BPR. "Nearly 100K cheered on a tweet about running over a pro-Trump child.
How gullible are you people? At $2 a cup. the kid would have to sell 11,000 cups of hot chocolate to raise $22,000. If he sold five an hour for eight hours a day it would take 275 days to sell 11,000 cups.

No seven year old kid is going to work eight hours a day for 275 days. That is just ridiculous. But not as ridiculous as you people thinking this is a true story. The whole thing was made up by his parents who are officials in the Texas Republican party.
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How gullible are you people? At $2 a cup. the kid would have to sell 11,000 cups of hot chocolate to raise $22,000. If he sold five an hour for eight hours a day it would take 275 days to sell 11,000 cups.

No seven year old kid is going to work eight hours a day for 275 days. That is just ridiculous. But not as ridiculous as you people thinking this is a true story. The whole thing was made up by his parents who are officials in the Texas Republican party.
The fact that you condone all this crap says a whole lot. You must stay tuned to MSNBC all your waking hours. Your side has been caught lying (proven) so many times, its no wonder you challenge anything honest and decent in the world.
And Facebook of all organizations should be trusted? What a joke.
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The fact that you condone all this crap says a whole lot. You must stay tuned to MSNBC all your waking hours. Your side has been caught lying (proven) so many times, its no wonder you challenge anything honest and decent in the world.
And Facebook of all organizations should be trusted? What a joke.
Kolfage, Bannon and Shea are crooks.

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