A grassroots campaign to raise money for President Donald Trump’s long-promised border wall has collected millions of dollars in one of the strangest news stories this year. The wall, which Trump has repeatedly promised, is still unstarted as Washington braces for a government shutdown over the president’s demand for taxpayer funding. “If we can fund a large portion of this wall, it will jumpstart things and will be less money Trump has to secure from our politicians,” Kolfage wrote on the GoFundMe page for the wall campaign. A number of opposing fundraising efforts have popped up in response to the wall campaign, including one for ladders and another to build an escalator. According to NBC News, the Facebook pages sent users to affiliate websites, using conspiracy theories and racist content to drive traffic.

Source: Huffington Post December 21, 2018 13:41 UTC