"Republicans have no clear shot at him any more. There is no longer a strong case against Biden’s re-election. With that, I think what we are beginning to see is the election is increasingly becoming a referendum on Trump and not Biden."
Parker Molloy says that it matters that mainstream media missed Katie Britt's lie and big-name news outlets got scooped by someone with a newsletter and a TikTok account.
"Where was the mainstream press on this? Why did it take an independent journalist like Katz digging into the details of this story for it to come to light that the points within were built on misrepresentations, if not outright lies?"
"Throughout [Katie Britt's] remarks, her face was frozen into a ghastly cheerleader’s rictus—an effect that became especially gothic as she doted with unseemly relish on the details of alleged immigrant rape, sex-trafficking, and other mayhem."
"(What’s more, Britt’s central immigrant horror story turned out to be a repurposed saga of cartel-driven sexual abuse in Guadalajara dating from the second George W. Bush administration, which she dishonestly and cynically presented as an American calamity, authored by the immigration policies of Joe Biden.)"
"One person truly loved Britt’s speech: Donald Trump. The GOP’s leader praised Britt as delivering a 'GREAT' speech that was in his view 'compassionate and caring.'
Trump’s accolades for Britt should not come as a surprise. After all, Britt took a page from Trump’s own playbook by baselessly stoking fears about Brown immigrants to scare voters into supporting the white supremacist GOP."
ℹ #KatyTur spoke with Former national #security adviser to President #Trump, #JohnBolton about the news that #Trump will receive #intelligence briefings as #GOP nominee despite concerns about his handling of classified information as #US President
The NYT big-ups independent journalists below
It happens much more than you’d think— this story uncovered from an independent person and given no credit.
Republican Katie Britt Tells Big Lie
The victim was from Mexico, who was abused there, which Katie was speaking against. So, I guess her point was pro-trafficking outside the U.S? KATIE made up the whole part that the crime happened in the US. In fact, it happened in Mexico.
The party of propaganda, disinformation, insurrection, election crimes, theft, voters suppression, rapist, defamation, forced birth, taking away Healthcare, & trying to install a rapist, fraud, insurrectionist as dictator..... that Republican party lied in the response to the #sotu
“Because here is real danger in what Katie Britt did. And I want to take a moment and sit in the danger and talk about the fact that she weaponized someone's story, not to actually get something done, not to make someone's life better, but to score political points. It's just about the ugliest thing you can do in American politics.” — Alicia Menendez, on MSNBC’s The Weekend.
Jay Kuo zeroes in on the "bold-faced lie" Katie Britt told in her SOTU rebuttan — "that a sex trafficking victim, who was raped repeatedly at age 12, had met with Sen. Britt and was a stark example of Biden’s failed border policies."
As he notes, Jonathan Katz, a freelance journalist and reporter with years of experience as an AP foreign correspondent in Haiti and Mexico, surfaced Britt's bold-faced lie.
As Kuo adds, yesterday Washington Post in a report finally published on Saturday, the Washington Post confirmed what Katz has reported about Britt's bold-faced lie. He states.
"[Karla Jacinto Romero] is a sexual trafficking victims’ rights advocate. Her story is widely known. In fact, she testified before Congress in 2015 about being forced to work in Mexican brothels from 2004 to 2008—again, back when George W. Bush was president."
"Yet Sen. Britt took that story and made it one about the border, which it most certainly was not. …
Biden, the border and the cartels had nothing to do with Romero. According to her testimony, cited by the Post, after her mother threw her out of the house, a pimp took advantage of her, and she spent four years in a brothel, escaping at age 16.
Nor was Romero ever trafficked across the border to the U.S."
"As Jonathan Katz noted in his now viral TikTok video about Britt’s lies, the senator had made it seem like she had met the woman 'sitting by the banks of the Rio Grande, … holding her hand … getting her to tell her the story that she won’t tell anyone else.' In fact, Britt met Romero at a press conference organized by three GOP women senators, including Britt, and a Fox News reporter known for inflammatory pieces on immigration."
"Sen. Britt tried to scam the entire nation by trying to spin a story from two decades ago about a child victim of sexual tourism into a story today about Biden’s failed policies, sex trafficking across the border, and cartels. For that, the Washington Post gave her four Pinocchios—its worst rating, a real whopper."
"It takes a complete absence of a moral compass to leverage someone else’s tragic story—one she has carried for decades and made her life’s mission to tell others—into a tool for raw and cynical political gain. ...
It is incumbent upon the media, the public, and our Democratic leaders to call out the cheap ploys and race-baiting that Trump, Britt and the rest of the GOP deploy to rile up the public, all while doing nothing to actually fix the problem."
David Pepper discusses the huge lie Katie Britt told in her SOTU rebuttal about Karla Jacinto Romero, a trafficking victim. Britt placed the story of what happened to her in the US under Biden, when it's clear Britt knew this happened in Mexico in 2004-8.
"It’s about as appalling as it gets: coopting a human trafficking victim’s horrific story (which are often not believed), then lying about it to the entire nation to score political points.
You do that, and nothing is beyond the pale. You will clearly lie about anything. ...
But there’s also a dark lesson here about where we are politically."
"Trump and his allies are deathly afraid of losing. And as Britt showed the entire nation, that fear and desperation mean they will lie about anything.
Moreover, this was a lie that they must’ve known was easily disproved. Just like most of Trump’s daily lies are so obviously false.
But they don’t care.
Because in today’s media environment, certain media outlets will run with that lie and spend no time rebutting it even now."
So Katie Britt is a liar—you can say it, New York Times.
The Alabama senator used a story about sex trafficking to criticize the Biden administration’s border policies. But the events appear to have occurred in Mexico years ago.
"As soon as Senator Katie Britt started speaking, I knew exactly who she is. She is so many of the pastor's wives and Sunday School teachers I knew growing up in an Evangelical church. Be sweet. Obey."
~ Jess Piper
And the reason this matters — should matter to all of us — is that these white evangelical women not only want this for themselves: they want to impose it on all the rest of women.
"You all know Michelle Duggar. Remember her voice? Too high pitched? Too much like a little girl? Too breathy. That’s purposeful. Michelle has to show submission to her husband in all interactions public. She stared at Jim Bob anytime he spoke. She was quiet until given a question or prompt. She was also harboring secrets and that’s something I can’t forget. Terrible secrets behind that voice.
"Christian nationalist Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, is married to a woman who also uses the voice. I first heard her speak in a Fox News interview. I had the same reaction I had to Senator Britt. I turned the video up and listened…and got a cold shiver."
"The breathless speech, the incongruent facial movements and smiles. The cadence of condescension. I am better than you, and here are the ways. I have children. They are perfect. I have a marriage. It is perfect. I am pretty and well-educated. I am a Christian—I am god fearing and I prove it by holding hands with my family and praying for the rest of you. I am better than you."
Journalist Jonathan Katz fact checked Katie Britt’s horrific rape story from her over-the-top rebuttal.
Despite all the drama, it turns out to be a story that happened 20 years ago - and not in the U.S. but in Mexico. It’s a story that was recounted in Congressional testimony in 2015.
Katie #Britt lied when she blamed this on Joe #Biden’s border policies and when she said it happened in the U.S. #SOTU
The classified documents case will make use of a recording which indicates that #Trump had a highly sensitive document which he knew was NOT declassified.
The chain of evidence looks strong and while there is much news media spinning, a court of law is more rigorous environment where focus on fact is primary
Of course #KatieBritt Senator from #Alabama has now been caught in a lie about the awful sex trafficking story she recounted in her #SOTU response
The case she describes did not happen in the USA and did not happen during the #Biden administration. Apparently the case dates back to Bush II 2004 - 2008
The #Trumpist#GOP modus operandi: fear mongering, lying and BSing is all they have