Republican Sen. Katie Britt acknowledged Sunday that her graphic anecdote criticizing President Joe Biden Biden’s border policies took place before he was president or vice president.
During her Republican response to Biden's State of the Union address, Britt described a woman’s story of being “sex trafficked by the cartels starting at age 12." But the story she seemed to describe didn’t take place during Biden’s time as president or vice president, nor did it happen in the United States.
“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 told Shannon Bream on "Fox News Sunday" when asked if that particular story was something that took place under Biden’s watch.
Asked if she meant to give the impression it had taken place during Biden’s time in office, Britt said: “No, Shannon. Look, I very specifically said this is what President Biden did during his first 100 days. Minutes 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 have more and more people here."