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BumRushDaShow

(129,739 posts) Sun Mar 10, 2024, 07:59 PM Mar 10

Sen. Katie Britt acknowledges anecdote used to criticize Biden's border policies didn't happen during his presidency

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Source: CNN Politics

Updated 5:23 PM EDT, Sun March 10, 2024

Alabama Sen. Katie Britt on Sunday acknowledged that the graphic anecdote she employed to criticize President Joe Biden’s border policies didn’t occur during his presidency.

During the Republican response to the State of the Union address on Thursday, Britt described a woman’s story of being “sex trafficked by the cartels starting at age 12” before saying, “President Biden’s border crisis is a disgrace. It’s despicable. And it’s almost entirely preventable.”

Asked by Fox News’ Shannon Bream on Sunday whether she meant to give the impression that the story had taken place during Biden’s time in office, Britt responded: “No, Shannon,” before criticizing the president’s border policies.

“I very clearly said I spoke to a woman who told me about when she was trafficked when she was 12. So I didn’t say a teenager, I didn’t say a young woman, a grown woman. A woman, when she was trafficked, when she was 12,” Britt said.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/10/politics/katie-britt-sotu-response-immigration-biden/index.html

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Sen. Katie Britt acknowledges anecdote used to criticize Biden's border policies didn't happen during his presidency (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Mar 10 OP

She was deliberately misleading and she knows it. Getting so sick of these lies Walleye Mar 10 #1

It should also be mentioned that she was trafficed IN MEXICO lapfog_1 Mar 10 #2

Too late, Katie-baby. You shouldn't have opened your big mouth in the first place. calimary Mar 10 #3

Katie says . . . Aussie105 Mar 10 #4

Nice try, you filthy liar. mwb970 Mar 10 #5

Partial truth is untruth Warpy Mar 10 #6

She's got some apologizing to do. Deuxcents Mar 10 #7

Fact Check. sheshe2 Mar 10 #8

We have to ask ourselves what the point of this was... Picaro Mar 10 #9

Katie Britt, go fuck yourself, you creepy gaslighter. SunSeeker Mar 10 #10

Locking after forum hosts' review JudyM Mar 10 #11

Walleye

(31,104 posts)

1. She was deliberately misleading and she knows it. Getting so sick of these lies

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sun Mar 10, 2024, 08:03 PM

Mar 10

lapfog_1

(29,234 posts)

2. It should also be mentioned that she was trafficed IN MEXICO

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sun Mar 10, 2024, 08:04 PM

Mar 10

and not near the border.

calimary

(81,550 posts)

3. Too late, Katie-baby. You shouldn't have opened your big mouth in the first place.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sun Mar 10, 2024, 08:19 PM

Mar 10

Lying doesn't look good on you. Doesn't look good on ANYBODY, frankly.

Aussie105

(5,463 posts)

4. Katie says . . .

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sun Mar 10, 2024, 08:25 PM

Mar 10

Aww, I trotted out the story to garner some emotive anti-Biden sentiment.

You weren't supposed to notice . . .

mwb970

(11,368 posts)

5. Nice try, you filthy liar.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sun Mar 10, 2024, 08:37 PM

Mar 10

Just shove your head back up trump's butt and SHUT UP !!

Warpy

(111,397 posts)

6. Partial truth is untruth

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sun Mar 10, 2024, 09:08 PM

Mar 10

It also didn't happen in the US

You were not told directly at the border. You never met her until she testified before Congress last year.

It was lie after lie after lie.

Tell the truth and shame the devil, Katie.

Deuxcents

(16,380 posts)

7. She's got some apologizing to do.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sun Mar 10, 2024, 09:26 PM

Mar 10

sheshe2

(83,979 posts)

8. Fact Check.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sun Mar 10, 2024, 09:45 PM

Mar 10

You lied by omission.

Fact check complete.

Picaro

(1,527 posts)

9. We have to ask ourselves what the point of this was...

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sun Mar 10, 2024, 10:20 PM

Mar 10

I’ve witnessed the demonization of liberals (largely Democrats, but a lot of Independents). Sometimes it was to my face. But mainly the sharing of psychotic dehumanization of anyone not like us from people that assumed I was one of them. I’ve been told I look like a doctor, an FBI agent, a cop—but not a liberal.

Recognize that this one tactic has changed everything. Dehumanizing your opponents means that anything like democracy is essentially impossible.

When your opponent uses a tactic like this how can you work with them? Of course you can’t.

This is the most frightening thing.

How can we preserve our version of democracy if roughly 30% of the voting population don’t support a democratic form of government?

Doesn’t this tell us that you can’t work with these people? And when you apprehend that where does that leave us?

SunSeeker

(51,770 posts)

10. Katie Britt, go fuck yourself, you creepy gaslighter.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sun Mar 10, 2024, 10:43 PM

Mar 10

JudyM

(29,294 posts)

11. Locking after forum hosts' review

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sun Mar 10, 2024, 11:08 PM

Mar 10

Dupe of https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143206931