Brian Kolfage, the triple-amputee war veteran charged alongside Steve Bannon with conspiring to siphon money from a $25 million fund to build a U.S-Mexico border wall, says Manhattan federal prosecutors are on a witch hunt led by the president’s enemies.
In his first interview since the charges were handed down on Aug. 20, Kolfage, 37, called the indictment by the US Attorney in the Southern District of NY as reading like “a New York Times hit piece.”
“They made it up. It’s so blatantly false. If they can do this to us they can do it to anybody,” he said by phone from his home in Miramar Beach, Fla. “Everyone knows that the Southern District is really the sovereign district. They do their own things. They went after Rudy [Giuliani]. They do what they want to do and it’s political motivated.”
Bannon has publicly denied any wrongdoing, calling the charges he also skimmed cash off the fund for personal expenses a “political hit job.”
Kolfage, an Iraq war hero who lost both legs and and right hand in a 2004 rocket attack, became a household name in December 2018 after launching a GoFundMe campaign with the goal of raising $1 billion toward funding Trump’s long-promised wall along the southern border. The “We Build The Wall” effort — which has raised more than $25 million — promised donors that all funds would go toward construction and related costs and that Kolfage would take no salary…
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