• Carrolade@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Now, why do I get the impression she already knew that and just doesn’t care? How strange, that people can knowingly choose to be bad. Sure is weird, huh?

  • vegeta@lemmy.worldOP
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    8 months ago

    Sean Ross, Britt’s communications director, confirmed that she was talking about Karla Jacinto Romero — who has testified before Congress about being forced to work in Mexican brothels from 2004 to 2008.

    (A viral TikTok by journalist Jonathan Katz first revealed that Britt was speaking about Romero.) In a phone conversation and a statement, Ross disputed that Britt’s language was misleading.

    We disagree. Let’s take a look.

    Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20240309185539/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/09/fact-check-katie-britt-sex-trafficking/>>

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldB
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    8 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    If you were watching Britt’s speech on Thursday night, you likely would have thought she was talking about a recent victim of sex trafficking who was abused in the United States and suffered because of President Biden’s policies.

    Sean Ross, Britt’s communications director, confirmed that she was talking about Karla Jacinto Romero — who has testified before Congress about being forced to work in Mexican brothels from 2004 to 2008.

    The way Britt sets up the story, there is no indication that she is talking about a woman who was working in brothels in Mexico during the George W. Bush administration.

    There is no indication in her story that drug cartels were involved, though Britt said that in the State of the Union response and has made a similar claim on at least one other occasion.

    Romero was never trafficked to the United States; instead, she says many men who paid to have sex with her were “foreigners visiting my city looking to have sexual interactions with minors like me.”

    Most human trafficking prosecutions generally involve legal border crossings, visa fraud and travel into the United States on airplanes.


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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    No but you see Joe biden was pres… Vice pres… Senator of Tex… Well he was a Democrat and alive okay so it was his fault! [/their logic I guess]