Trump’s border wall gets a GoFundMe campaign that’s trying to raise $1 billion

President Trump has so far failed to secure funding for his long-promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, so now his most ardent supporters are trying to pay for it themselves.

Earlier this week, a GoFundMe campaign that aims to raise one billion dollars to, well, build that wall was launched. As of Thursday morning the campaign had raised $3.2 million dollars. That is, of course, far short of both the $1 billion goal and the amount Trump wanted for the wall ($5 billion) before he abandoned it in a fight with Democrats over a deal to avoid a partial government shutdown. But it’s still an impressive sum in a short amount of time. Read more…

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