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

Lies go around the world a dozen times before the truth laces up its running shoes.

Most people don’t pay close attention to politics. Or anything really. A retraction may as well not exist for -80% of the population.

This isn't even a retraction. She structured it as anyone who thought she meant differently is just silly. And then quickly transitions into present tense language about trafficking in the same fake voice she used for her speech.
I'm not sure if she's lying deliberately as much as she's just that ill-informed and uneducated, and rewarded for shooting from the hip (sometimes literally). It's part of the way these ideas and groups self-perpetuate.
But yeah, intentional or not, it's the bullshit asymmetry principle as well. It takes 10x the work to debunk bullshit as it does to create it.
- "Shooting from the hip."
  This speech was vetted by an entire committee. It wasn't just her speaking for herself; she was the voice of the entire Party.
  They're hoping that the faithful will be motivated by the speech, and figure that they won't know/won't care when the truth comes out.

I’m sure Fox, OAN, and RT will really grill her about this and their viewing audiences will view her with skepticism in the future. /s

In fairness it was on Fox she was called out and admitted it. I was quite surprised.
- The news desk, or prime time?

I hate this kind of news. We don't need her say-so to realize she was lying.

I like this kind of news because it gets her on the record for lying. Too often in this modern world GOP politicians just keep lying until journalists give up on asking. She has admitted to lying.
- I like this kind of news because it gets her on the record for lying.
  Page A1, National Headline, 40pt Font: "After Failed Immigration Policy, Will Biden Apologize To 12-Year-Old Rape Victim?!"
  Page D-12, Retractions, fine print: "Okay, so turns out last week's story was bullshit."
- The thing that's frustrating is her response that she didn't lie, which is technically true. But she refuses to say that she was intentionally misleading.
- No it doesn't. If she says a lie and someone else proves she's lying, then she's on the record for lying.
  Why on Earth should it be important for journalists to get an admission? Did she change her ways? Are journalists going to stop publishing what she says? Is she going to be shunned from public life?

Lmao. She admits never mentioning the current age of the person who was trafficked at age 12.

So for anyone out there who needs this broken down. She brought up this example in her response to Biden's SOTU. But did not mention when it had happened, leaving viewers to figure that out on their own. The only time relevant context was that the fact that her speech was given in response to Biden.

She absolutely lied by omission but she's hoping people don't notice that. That they just go, "oh yeah it's on all those silly Democrats for assuming when she didn't say." And that they give no more thought to it because she yet again goes directly into that breathy fake concern voice about trafficking. At least this time she didn't graphically describe rape on national TV.

Hardly the first time we've heard a politician lie on national television. I'm old enough to remember "We can't let the smoking gun become a mushroom cloud", "I did not have sex with that woman", and (my personal favorite) "A few months ago I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions tell me that's true, but the facts and evidence tell me it is not."
Its just so fucking funny to see people line up like a bunch of dime store marks to taste the latest batch of snake oil panacea.
Americans are the most propagandized people on the fucking Earth.
- Oh I was a bit young to remember Reagan, but the other two... Fuck me I remember seeing "Mission Accomplished" on the one TV we had. Right after conducting a combat mission. And we didn't go home the next day either.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

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.

In a detailed video posted on TikTok on Friday, freelance journalist Jonathan Katz tracked down what appears to be the story Britt referenced and found that it happened in Mexico in the mid-2000s.

“The Senators learned about cartel activity in Mexico and the work being done to rescue victims of human trafficking,” the press release said.

Jacinto has shared her story publicly, including in a 2015 hearing on sex trafficking held by the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Global Human Rights.

Britt has previously referenced the story she gave Thursday – including on Capitol Hill on September 27, 2023, according to her social media account.

White House spokesman Andrew Bates told CNN in a statement Sunday, “Instead of telling more debunked lies to justify opposing the toughest bipartisan border legislation in modern history, Senator Britt should stop choosing human smugglers and fentanyl traffickers over our national security and the Border Patrol Union.”

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Good bot. Thank you for not short-circuiting over GQP lies. You are resilient and we appreciate you.

You can undo this type of misinformation. Biden has plenty to criticize him for, and she had to make shit up. That is the GOP biggest strength, they can lie on TV and not get pushed back hard enough to undo the damage. Dems still treat them with too much basic respect.