During her widely panned Republican response to the State of the Union
Address on Thursday night, Sen. Katie Britt of Alabama told a graphic sex-trafficking story about a woman who was sexually abused “over and
over” by members of Mexican drug cartels on the United States side of
the Rio Grande.
Britt implied also that the woman had confided the story to her and that
the events had occurred during President Biden’s administration.
But reporter Jonathan Katz, in a lengthy video posted to social media,
connects the dots on the story, and it appears Britt lied: The woman has
told her story many times publicly, including to Congress; the events
didn’t occur in the United States; and they happened during George W. Bush’s presidency.
“When I first took office, I did something different,” Britt said. “I traveled to the Del Rio sector of Texas, where I spoke to a woman who
shared her story with me.
“She had been sex trafficked by the cartels starting at age 12. She told
me not just that she was raped every day, but how many times a day she
was raped.”
She added: “The cartels put her on a mattress in a shoebox of a room,
and they sent men through that door, over and over again, for hours and
hours on-end.”
Britt implies the rapes took place in the U.S. — under Biden’s watch.
“We wouldn’t be OK with this happening in a third-world country,” she said. “This is the United States of America, and it’s past time we start acting like it. President Biden’s border crisis is a disgrace. It’s despicable. And it’s almost entirely preventable.”
Katz, however, says he has proof that the events didn’t occur in the
U.S., and that — according to the victim — they happened between 2004
and 2008, when George W. Bush was president.
https://www.nj.com/news/2024/03/was-sen-katie-britt-caught-in-whopping-lie-about-graphic-sex-trafficking-story.html
That's the Republican alt-fact spirit!
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