Tulsi Gabbard - The problem with her is, we really don't know if she truly had a change of heart regarding the Dems and turned the other direction (remember President Reagan was a Democrat), or is she just a Trojan Horse, pretending and fooling right side folks by saying all the right things. I'm kind of leaning toward the latter.

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IMO, it'll be Tulsi Gabbard and it should be.

Tulsi Gabbard? The same one from the commie state of Hawaii??? Oh God, please say NO!!!

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Originally posted by stoic-one:
As an Alabama resident I can tell you Katie Britt is NOT ready for prime time level of VP.

Could happen. Remember Sarah Palin?

SMDH.

Republican Sen. Katie Britt ADMITS cartel sex trafficking story did not happen under Biden's watch after her 'embarrassing' State of the Union rebuttal was debunked

READ: Critics tear into Britt for using 20-year-old story to highlight Biden's border crisis during Republican rebuttal to Biden's State of the Union

By KATELYN CARALLE, U.S. POLITICAL REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM IN ATLANTA, GEORGIA and DOMINIC YEATMAN FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 10:59 EDT, 10 March 2024 | UPDATED: 11:20 EDT, 10 March 2024

Sen. Katie Britt defended the anecdote she used to condemn President Joe Biden's border policies – even though it happened 20 years ago.

The Alabama senator said she didn't mean to imply that the child trafficking incident happened under the current president's watch, but wanted to compare the policies that lead to horrific things like this.

Britt, 42, delivered the Republican rebuttal to Biden's State of the Union address on Thursday evening from her kitchen table in Birmingham, Alabama where she got emotional while she tore into the president for his lax immigration and border policies.

But her emotive story of a 12-year-old trafficking victim used to illustrate the border crisis under Joe Biden sparked outrage after reports emerged the ordeal actually took place in Mexico when George W Bush was president in 2004.

Speaking to Fox News Sunday host Shannon Bream, Britt confirmed the story was old and said she never said it was current.

Asked to clarify if the story happened under Biden's administration, Britt replied: 'Well, 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.'

But her response comes after the junior Alabama senator was already excoriating for using the two-decades-old anecdote.

'I don't know what the F I saw,' former Fox host Megyn Kelly said, 'she embarrassed herself, she embarrassed Republicans, and she embarrassed women.'

Another critic of Britt, writer Nick Knudsen, said she is exposed as a 'lying sack of s***.'

The GOP rising star chose to centerpiece the border crisis aspect of her rebuttal around 'a woman who shared her story with me', after they spoke in Del Rio, Texas .

'She 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,' Britt told viewers.

'The cartels put her on a mattress in a shoebox of a room, and they sent men through that door, over and over again, for hours and hours on end,' she recalled. 'We wouldn't be OK with this happening in a third-world country. This is the United States of America, and it's past time we start acting like it.'

Former AP journalist Jonathan Katz was among the first to realize that Britt was speaking about the case of Karla Jacinto Romero, who was ensnared by a pimp after her mother threw her out of the family home in Mexico City in 2004.

But Britt said she wanted to tell the story to 'bring some light' to the issue of human trafficking and drug cartels 'profiting off of women.'

She hopes 'the media actually decides to cover' that aspect of the crisis and not focus on the timeline of events.

Britt's impassioned 18-minute speech infuriated liberals and was ridiculed by Scarlett Johansen who parodied it on SNL where she was derided as the 'craziest b**ch in the Target parking lot'.

Karla Jacinto Romero was forced into prostitution for four years before escaping and becoming a powerful and high-profile advocate for child sex victims, testifying to Congress in 2015 and meeting the Pope.

'Britt tells it like she was sitting by the banks of the Rio Grande holding her hand, getting her to tell the story she won't tell anyone else,' Katz remarked.

'This senator has gone around telling the story over and over again as if she was describing actions that took place on or even near the US border during Joe Biden's presidency.

'It goes beyond misleading.'

'It just looks like she got on national television and lied about something really horrific and really important for her own personal and her party's political gain.'

Britt traveled to the border at the Del Rio Sector in Texas in January 2023 with fellow Republican Sens. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee and Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi, according to a news release issued then from Hyde-Smith's office.

'The Senators held a roundtable with former Mexican Congresswoman Rosa María de la Garza, Fox News Contributor Sara Carter and Karla Jacinto Romero, a survivor of human trafficking,' the news release said.

'The Senators learned about cartel activity in Mexico and the work being done to rescue victims of human trafficking.'

Britt, 42, has made immigration one of her top issues in her first years in the Senate, and Republicans have seized on a surge of immigrants entering the country during Biden's term to attack the president.

Donald Trump had endorsed Britt in her 2022 primary after flipping on former Rep. Mo Brooks, who he'd first endorsed.

Britt is married to former NFL player Wesley Britt and they have two children, and Speaker Mike Johnson noted Britt is the 'only current Republican mom of school-aged kids serving in the Senate.'

The youngest Republican woman to be elected to the Senate, drew praise from some for her performance including Texas Senator Ted Cruz

'Congratulations to my friend and colleague @SenKatieBritt for showing Texans and Americans what Republicans really stand for—a strong economy, secure border, and good jobs for every American,' he posted.

'She was absolutely spot on and delivered a dynamite response,' wrote Republican South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham.

But former GOP Congressman Joe Walsh called her remarks 'despicable'.

'She sat in front of the American people and she lied to us about a very serious problem,' he told CNN.

'It's very clear to me,' Katz concluded, that Britt was 'trying to create an association in the people's mind between Joe Biden, the border, Mexicans or people of Latin descent, and sexual violence.

'That's what she's going for and she's doing it on the basis of what you can only say is just an out and out lie.'

Katz's rapid rebuttal earned more than 150,000 likes after he posted it on TikTok.

'Holy moly. This is worth every minute,' said writer Nick Knudsen.

'Jonathan Katz exposes Katie Britt as a lying sack of s***.'

Why would anyone lie or even play with half truths in a situation as high profile as the SOTU rebuttal address? You know both sides are going to fact check the shit out of what anyone on either side said or claimed. Even a minor error is going to be publicized in a big way and you are going to be left humiliated and trying to explain a situation that has no explanation other than you're an outright liar. Her delivery was almost unwatchable to begin with and now this.

This will follow her forever now. Every time she makes a move the dems will beat her ass with this hammer forever. She's toast.

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Originally posted by 12131:
Tulsi Gabbard - The problem with her is, we really don't know if she truly had a change of heart regarding the Dems and turned the other direction (remember President Reagan was a Democrat), or is she just a Trojan Horse, pretending and fooling right side folks by saying all the right things. I'm kind of leaning toward the latter.

Understand skepticism but a trojan horse is a bit far-fetched, don't ya think?

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Originally posted by stoic-one:
As an Alabama resident I can tell you Katie Britt is NOT ready for prime time level of VP.

Could happen. Remember Sarah Palin?

Sarah Palin was a governor, she had/has executive experience running a state. Britt has no such pedigree.

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Originally posted by 12131:
SMDH.

I think the only lying going on is the Left now trying to act as though sex trafficking, including"rape rooms", isn't a growing problem in this country, being made worse by an open border that eases the ability for these criminals to smuggle women and children back and forth from the US and Mexico.

Case in point:

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https://www.11alive.com/articl...3a-9282-b618055e2a73

ATLANTA — The City of Atlanta ranks at number two – just behind our nation's capital when it comes to the highest rates of human trafficking. The bottom line – dozens of children are being sold for sex on a nightly basis across Georgia. "Human trafficking is a big problem in Georgia," explained Hannah Palmquist, unit chief of the Human Trafficking Prosecution Unit.

In 2022, Palmquist said the unit recovered 116 children.

"One of the biggest problems in Georgia with respect to trafficking is actually the buying of children," Palmquist said. The average age of a child being sold and bought is between 12 to 14 years old.

Palmquist pointed out, "People believe human trafficking is a kid being snatched at a park and being thrown into a van, essentially a kidnapping and we know that’s not what it is." She said traffickers are looking to form a bond with a child, who oftentimes lacks a strong foundation. "It might be a child who doesn’t have housing, doesn’t have food or shelter, doesn’t have a structured family to go home to," Palmquist said. "It’s not kidnapping, it’s grooming." One of the best networks recruiting young kids will also sell them.

"Majority of gangs are engaging in human trafficking," Palmquist explained.

She said it boils down to money. And while it's hard to hear, Palmquist explained, "A trafficker will sell a child because they can sell them over and over and over again. Where if they were to sell drugs, once they sell that cocaine they have to purchase more supply but with a child, they can keep making money off that child over and over again."

Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr explained it's easier now than ever to identify and target children. "Whether you’re talking about gang activity or human trafficking not only is it transient but it’s online," Attorney General Carr said.

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Originally posted by lastmanstanding:
Why would anyone lie or even play with half truths in a situation as high profile as the SOTU rebuttal address? You know both sides are going to fact check the shit out of what anyone on either side said or claimed. Even a minor error is going to be publicized in a big way and you are going to be left humiliated and trying to explain a situation that has no explanation other than you're an outright liar. Her delivery was almost unwatchable to begin with and now this.

This will follow her forever now. Every time she makes a move the dems will beat her ass with this hammer forever. She's toast.

Yep! She knew exactly what she was doing with the deception. Out of tons of fuck-ups at the border this administration has to offer, she went and picked a SOB story from 20 years ago. She got caught, and, her "answer" to the friendly Fox host, when asked, was so typical of a politician, evasive non-answer. \ Totally disgusting.

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Originally posted by 12131:
Yep! She knew exactly what she was doing with the deception. Out of tons of fuck-ups at the border this administration has to offer, she went and picked a SOB story from 20 years ago. <<snip>>

She definitely fucked up on this one, and yes, she will be remembered and hammered for it from now on! I WAS a Katie Britt supporter, but this goes beyond a simple error. She is toast...