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8-Year-Old Girl Easily Scales Replica of Trump’s “Impenetrable” Border Wall

HeadlineOct 15, 2019

Trump has said his border wall will be “impenetrable,” and claimed 20 “world class” mountain climbers said it would be hard to climb. But a slew of amateur climbers have easily scaled a prototype of the wall built by the owner of a climbing park in Kentucky, including an 8-year-old girl named Lucy Hancock, who scaled the wall in about a minute.

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