Austin boy called 'little Hitler' after selling hot cocoa to raise money for border wall
AUSTIN, Texas (KEYE) - A 7-year-old boy is facing backlash after some neighbors in his northwest Austin community took offense to a hot chocolate stand he started to raise money for President Donald Trump's proposed border wall.
The boy's parents, Shane and Jennifer Stevens, say their son Benton decided he wanted to start the fundraiser after attending the inauguration and watching the State of the Union address earlier this month.
Both Shane and Jennifer are members of the Republican National Convention and call themselves conservatives. They say that the news coverage they watch and the conversation at the dinner table have obviously rubbed off on Benton.
"I think it's important that (our children) know what's going on in the world, where we stand, what we believe in," said Jennifer.
They say he begged them to set up a hot chocolate stand to raise the money for the wall, and over this past weekend, he set up shop at a Steiner Ranch strip mall.
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Benton said he wanted to raise the money for the wall and mail it to President Trump, or go to Washington and give him the money in person "so that the illegal immigrants can't get into our town illegally."
Benton raised nearly $1,400 in two days.
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