Alabama Senator Katie Britt faced criticism for inaccuracies in her State of the Union response regarding a victim of human trafficking she said she spoke with.
Britt told of a woman trafficked by cartels starting at age 12, implying it occurred under President Biden, but the victim was actually trafficked in the early 2000s.
“The funny thing is, [Mike Johnson’s] like, ‘No, don’t worry about, you know, people are going to tell you horror stories about all of these things that happened and people’s career being blown up over it.’ And he’s like, ‘It’ll be fine,'” Britt said.
The victim later clarified to CNN that a pimp, not cartels, was responsible.
While Britt blamed liberal media for backlash, the victim urged empathy and addressing the broader issues of human trafficking.
“I work as a spokesperson for many victims who have no voice, and I really would like them to be empathetic: all the governors, all the senators, to be empathetic with the issue of human trafficking because there are millions of girls and boys who disappear all the time. People who are really trafficked and abused, as she mentioned,” trafficking victim Jacinto Romero said.
Britt noted that she had spoken with a lady who “had been sex-trafficked by the cartels starting at age 12. She told me not just that she was raped every day, but how many times a day she was raped.”
“We wouldn’t be OK with this happening in a Third World country. This is the United States of America, and it is past time, in my opinion, that we start acting like it,” she added. “President Biden’s border crisis is a disgrace.”
Britt’s remarks in a podcast with Senator Ted Cruz focused more on joking about the response and coverage, lamenting putting too much passion and heart into issues she cares about, rather than substantively addressing concerns about her specific telling of the victim’s story.
“I mean, my crime was putting too much passion, too much heart and soul behind the issues that I genuinely care about, and they slaughtered me across the airways,” Britt said.
She noted that the border crisis “is not only a national security crisis, but a humanitarian crisis that no reporter is telling. … They’re not telling the story of human trafficking and what’s happening under [Biden].”
“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 argued.
“Scarlett Johansson, here you have Black Widow. They bring in someone from Avengers to play me in the cold open. I’m here for it,” Britt later joked of the SNL skit which aired following the speech.
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