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Trump claims attacks on migrants help 'stir debate,' says he will 'soon' announce abortion position

As Donald Trump faced backlash for saying some immigrants who come to the U.S. are "not people" but "animals," the former president defended some of his divisive characterizations of people crossing the border, insisting that he has to use "certain rhetoric" to "stir debate."

"It also gets people thinking about very important issues that, if you don't use certain rhetoric, if you don't use certain words, and maybe they're not very nice words, nothing will happen. That did stir debate," Trump told Fox News' Howard Kurtz in a pretaped interview that aired Sunday.

Kurtz had pointed to Trump previously saying migrants who come to the country illegally are "poisoning the blood" of the country. That rhetoric echoes past dictators like Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.

"I didn't know that," Trump said on Fox News.

But, he added, "Our country is being poisoned."

"Everything I've said has been right. ... We have millions of people coming into our country that shouldn't be here," Trump continued, repeating baseless warnings about "migrant crime."

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