Trump contradicts his chief of staff saying his thoughts on the wall have not ‘evolved’
Washington — On Thursday, US President Donald Trump insisted that his plan for a wall along the Mexican border has "never changed or evolved", in tweets posted after his chief of staff said he was not "fully informed" when he pledged to build it last year. Retired General John Kelly’s remarks, made to members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and reported by the New York Times on Wednesday, were a rare departure from the president on one of the core issues that defined his run for office. He told the lawmakers he had persuaded Trump the wall was not necessary and that the president’s opinion on the barrier had "evolved". But Trump hit back on Twitter, writing: "The Wall is the Wall, it has never changed or evolved from the first day I conceived of it." The president added that some of the wall will be "see through" — a protection, he said last July, against people throwing "large sacks of drugs" over — and repeated that it will be paid for "directly or indirectly" by Mexico. "The...
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