(AP) - Trump admitted Tuesday what he earlier denied: He used the slur “shithole countries” to disparage Haiti and African nations during a 2018 meeting with lawmakers. Now he’s bragging about a comment that sparked global outrage during his first term.

Back then, Trump had denied making the contemptuous statement during a closed-door meeting, but on Tuesday, he showed little compunction reliving it during a rally in Pennsylvania . He went on to further disparage Somalia as “filthy, dirty, disgusting, ridden with crime.”

Trump was boasting that he had “announced a permanent pause on Third World migration , including from hellholes like Afghanistan, Haiti, Somalia and many other countries,” when someone in the crowd yelled out the 2018 remark.

That prompted him to recall the 201

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