Katie Britt defends use of sex-trafficking story in SOTU response that happened during Bush administration
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Sen. Katie Britt of Alabama, who gave GOP response to Biden’s State of the Union address, gave a harrowing account of a young woman’s sexual abuse that happened several years before Biden took office.
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Journalist says Katie Britt’s story about child sex abuse ‘out-and-out lie’
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Katie Britt defends use of sex-trafficking story in SOTU response that happened during Bush administration
Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala., appeared to link a story of sexual abuse to President Biden’s border policies, but the incident she described took place during the Bush Administration.
Sen. Katie Britt on Sunday denied accusations that she intentionally implied the harrowing sex-trafficking story she referenced in her State of the Union rebuttal took place under President Biden’s watch.
Katie Britt, a Republican senator from Alabama, suggested on Fox News that viewers should have parsed her wording to determine that a sex-trafficking case she referred to wasn’t recent.
Sen. Katie Britt of Alabama, who gave GOP response to Biden’s State of the Union address, gave a harrowing account of a young woman’s sexual abuse that happened several years before Biden took office.
The woman who appears central to an anecdote told by GOP Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala., in the GOP response to the State of the Union called the use of her story "distorted for political purposes.
The sex trafficking survivor whose story was told by Republican Sen. Katie Britt during the lawmaker's viral State of the Union rebuttal tells CNN that Joe Biden's immigration policies didn't factor into her story for a number of reasons — including that it didn't happen in the U.S.
Sen. Katie Britt of Alabama, who gave GOP response to Biden’s State of the Union address, gave a harrowing account of a young woman’s sexual abuse that happened several years before Biden took office.
