Three confidants of President Donald Trump are indicating that the president's signature campaign pledge to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border won't be fulfilled as advertised.
Trump sparked fervent chants of "Build that wall!" at rallies before and after his election and more recently cited a lack of funding for a border wall as the reason for partially shutting down the government.
However, White House chief of staff John Kelly told the Los Angeles Times in an interview published Sunday that Trump abandoned the notion of "a solid concrete wall early on in the administration."
Meanwhile, White House counselor Kellyanne Conway calls discussion of the apparent contradiction "a silly semantic argument."
Sen. Lindsey Graham had lunch Sunday with Trump and calls the wall "a metaphor for border security."
AP
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