TikToker Casts Doubt on Katie Britt’s Trafficking Anecdote from SOTU Response

Alabama Senator Katie Britt delivered the Republican rebuttal to Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on Thursday, in which she blasted the president’s economic and immigration policies.

The speech, recited with a heightened sense of drama, was poorly reviewed, including by many members of her own party. Now questions are being raised about whether Britt intentionally distorted one of her most salient anecdotes.

“We know that President Biden didn’t just create this border crisis. He invited it with 94 executive actions in his first 100 days,” Britt said in her remarks. “When I took office, I took a different approach. I traveled to the Del Rio sector of Texas. That’s where I spoke to a woman who shared her story with me. She had been sex trafficked by the cartels starting at the age of 12.”

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