GiveSendGo CoFounder Jacob Wells (@jacobawells) / X

GiveSendGo CoFounder Jacob Wells

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GiveSendGo CoFounder Jacob Wells

@jacobawells

Jesus Follower! Husband, Father, Veteran, Co-Founder GiveSendGo.com.

Virginia Beach, VA

Joined December 2011

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GiveSendGo CoFounder Jacob Wells
@jacobawells
May 23
@GiveSendGo Part of our rationale for allowing fundraising campaigns for people accused of violent crimes is to uphold two core principles: innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, and freedom of speech — which includes the right to support legal defense. (Both biblical
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GiveSendGo CoFounder Jacob Wells
@jacobawells
May 3, 2025
At GiveSendGo, we recently disabled comments on the fundraising campaigns for Karmelo Anthony and Shiloh Hendrix due to the unacceptable volume of racist and derogatory remarks. At the time comments were turned off, both campaigns had raised approximately $500,000 with around
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Jacob Wells, citing free speech, had formerly (repeatedly) refused to disable comments on Karmelo Anthony's fundraiser which explicitly called for the death of White citizens. x.com/jacobawells/st… x.com/jacobawells/st… x.com/jacobawells/st… x.com/jacobawells/st… Such comments were allowed on Anthony's fundraiser for over 3 weeks till today x.com/MattWalshBlog/… x.com/_MKNLY/status/… x.com/royal_bobby24/… givesendgo.com/HelpKarmelo
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GiveSendGo CoFounder Jacob Wells
@jacobawells
Apr 9, 2025
People are mad about our stance to allow Karmelo Anthony family a campaign on GiveSendGo and I get it, it is a horrible situation. There are even calls for a boycott, but because I know a similar scenario will happen again for someone on the "right" and our competitor won't allow
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GiveSendGo CoFounder Jacob Wells
@jacobawells
Apr 8, 2025
Replying to @Chicago1Ray
So you are ready to undermine this kids right to a legal defense because you are mad? Got it. That’s how freedoms work for. Rules for me not for thee.
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GiveSendGo CoFounder Jacob Wells
@jacobawells
Apr 11, 2025
To those claiming it was right for us to allow Kyle Rittenhouse, Daniel Penny, etc a campaign on GiveSendGo even though they were accused of violent crimes, but then say it is not okay for Karmelo another person accused of a violent crime, please explain how you would structure
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GiveSendGo CoFounder Jacob Wells
@jacobawells
Mar 31, 2025
Replying to @ShaunRickard67
About time. We sent all his information over to the Biden DOJ/Secret Service and they did nothing with it. Will be reaching out to the prosecution to get charges added for GiveSendGo.
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GiveSendGo CoFounder Jacob Wells
@jacobawells
Apr 10, 2025
Replying to @mcadley
The situation was the same with Daniel Penny. He was accused of murdering an unarmed black man on the subway. He was able to raise 3m on GiveSendGo.
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GiveSendGo CoFounder Jacob Wells
@jacobawells
May 3, 2025
Replying to @lporiginalg
No Shame on you!
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GiveSendGo CoFounder Jacob Wells
@jacobawells
Apr 10, 2025
Replying to @Sydney_Carton34 and @ThisIsKyleR
We didn’t. GoFme did.
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GiveSendGo CoFounder Jacob Wells
@jacobawells
May 3, 2025
Replying to @White_Amercan and @BIPOCracism
Nope. Cry harder.
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GiveSendGo CoFounder Jacob Wells
@jacobawells
Apr 10, 2025
Replying to @GX4600 and @mcadley
Most definitely can. The guy on the subway hadn’t even laid his hands on anyone and didn’t have a weapon. Along with that Penny was charged with murder just like this kid. So what you’re really suggesting is that we allow campaigns for those accused of violent crimes like Penny
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GiveSendGo CoFounder Jacob Wells
@jacobawells
May 17, 2025
Replying to @RealTeaWithTia
I never said it never existed, what I said was it was fake. There never was a legitimate fundraising campaign that actually received any donations like that one pretended to show. So in that manner it was fake. The real campaign that was the basis for the fake one was created in
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GiveSendGo CoFounder Jacob Wells
@jacobawells
Apr 10, 2025
We were the only platform that allowed Kyle Rittenhouse when he was accused of murder, Daniel Penny when he was accused of murder, Derek Chauvin when he was accused of murder and the list goes on. We allowed the presumption of innocence to lead the way and allow the court to make
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GiveSendGo CoFounder Jacob Wells
@jacobawells
Apr 10, 2025
The first fact in every legal case is: The public does not know all the facts.
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