Senator Katie Britt, an Alabama Republican, was confronted on Fox News Sunday by host Shannon Bream regarding a statement she made during her widely criticized State of the Union (SOTU) rebuttal address on Thursday night.
Bream specifically asked Britt about the story she told about a sex-trafficking survivor and the implication that it happened on President Joe Biden‘s watch.
When asked if she meant to imply if the story happened during Biden’s time in office, Britt replied, “No, Shannon. I very specifically said, ‘This is what President Biden did during his first 100 days.’ Minutes after coming into office, he stopped all deportations, he halted construction of the border wall and he said, ‘I’m going to give amnesty to millions.’ Those types of things act as a magnet to help more and more people here.”
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The Context:
Accusations have emerged that Britt’s rebuttal featured a “whopping lie” in her reference to a woman who said she had been sexually trafficked from Mexico to the United States at the age of 12. Britt claimed to have met this woman during a visit to the southern border in the “Del Rio sector of Texas.”
On Friday, however, Talking Points Memo journalist Jonathan M. Katz posted a lengthy video to TikTok in which he cited evidence to suggest that Britt’s portrayal of the woman’s situation was inaccurate. According to information Katz found, including from her own past testimony before Congress, the woman that he believes the senator likely spoke to, Karla Jacinto Romero, was trafficked at a young age entirely within Mexico. This occurred during a time when Biden was not in the White House in any capacity, between 2004 and 2008.
“These events didn’t happen in the United States,” Katz said. “These crimes didn’t take place in the United States. Or even near the border. They took place in Mexico.”
What We Know:
When pressed by Bream on Sunday about the timeline related to the woman in question, Britt said, “I very clearly…
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