Amid the ongoing fallout from former President Donald Trump's comments about immigrants — which have drawn comparisons to Adolf Hitler — some Republicans have leapt to his defense in recent days with an alternate theory: Maybe he was actually talking about the fentanyl crisis.

While some members of his party have balked at or outrightly condemned the remarks, others have come to Trump’s aid.

"My state has more fentanyl poisoning per capita than any state in the country. I had a call with several Alaskan Native leaders three or four months ago — a whole bunch of them online. The first three questions I got in that call — it was a big conference call — was what do you guys do about the southern border,” Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) told POLITICO Wednesday.

"So if he was kind of getting at that — I didn't see the whole context of it — I agree. But I wouldn't use that rhetoric. But are these........

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