Katie Britt defends sex trafficking story she misrepresented during SOTU rebuttal
by Ariana Baio
Mar 10, 2024
2 minutes
Katie Britt, the freshman Alabama Senator whose State of the Union rebuttal was widely ridiculed this week, is defending accusations that she misrepresented a story about a human trafficking survivor in order to amplify fears and critiques of President Joe Biden’s border policies.
Over the weekend, after a journalist revealed that a story she told of a human trafficking survivor happened more than 15 years ago in Mexico and not recently in the US, as Ms Britt had implied.
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