Trump has often tripped over his own tongue while speaking about sensitive topics like abortion and religion, seemingly unaware or uncaring about the language used in such debates.

In an interview airing Wednesday night, Trump declared to Fox News' Sean Hannity that there would be "no amnesty" for undocumented immigrants. But when pushed by Hannity if he would amend his previous pledge to remove all illegal immigrants from the U.S. to include an exception for those who have not committed other crimes, Trump got wobbly.

"No citizenship,” Trump responded. “Let me go a step further — they'll pay back-taxes, they have to pay taxes, there's no amnesty, as such, there's no amnesty, but we work with them.”

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