Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) accused the media of trying to “silence” her by fact-checking the sex trafficking story she included in her State of the Union rebuttal last week.
In her widely-mocked response to President Joe Biden’s SOTU address, Britt implied that Biden’s border policies were to blame for a woman she met having been sex trafficked. But the woman Britt seemed to be referencing was victimized when George W. Bush was president. The victim said it was “not fair” for the Alabama Republican to use her story.
“You told a story about a woman being sex trafficked, and the media has gone crazy ‘fact-checking’ you. The Washington Post gave you four Pinocchios,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said to Britt on his podcast, “Verdict.”
“Unbelievable,” Britt replied.
“They want to silence a conservative woman for speaking out on this topic,” the freshman senator continued. “They don’t want to bring light and help the women who are actually being trafficked.”
“You’ve had to deal with this for quite some time, but the liberal media isn’t interested in the truth,” Britt said to Cruz. “They’re interested in burying the truth about Joe Biden and his border crisis, but all they want to do is, um, they have an agenda. And if they really wanted to know this story, they would have taken time to know the facts. And I think when all the facts come out that people will see the truth.”
