WASHINGTON — Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala., has come under fire in recent days over allegations that she misrepresented the story of a sex trafficking victim in the Republican response to the State of the Union last week. An NBC News review of her remarks over the last year shows it’s an anecdote she’s used often […]
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Sen. Katie Britt acknowledges anecdote used to criticize Biden’s border policies didn’t happen during his presidency
Alabama Sen. Katie Britt on Sunday acknowledged that the graphic anecdote she employed to criticize President Joe Biden’s border policies didn’t occur during his presidency. 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 […]
MLK Day speaker uses personal anecdote to remind us of civil-rights’ cycle of good, then bad
PETERSBURG – The day before insurrectionists stormed the U.S. Capitol to block the certification of President Joe Biden’s election, Rep. Jennifer McClellan was flipping through the Bible of her late father when she found something that later “struck home to me” the cycle of civil-rights progression and regression. Dr. James McClellan, a professor at Virginia […]