“We knew from the start,” she told The Daily Beast on Thursday. “They did all this to increase their fundraising.”

She fought the project in the courts as best she could, noting that a barrier so close to the river’s edge would violate our treaty with Mexico and likely cause havoc when the water rises.

But We Build the Wall eventually prevailed with an argument that a privately funded project on private land should be allowed to proceed. Treviño-Wright was able to point out that it was inherently ridiculous to erect a short stretch of wall that just ends where it ends, with no possible connection to the barrier the government is preparing to build a mile deeper into U.S. territory.

But building a wall was apparently not the primary goal of We Build the Wall, as people other than Treviño-Wright might have been quicker to suspect if Kolfage were not a triple amputee, having lost both legs and part of an arm in Iraq.