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Katie Britt Defends Her False Sex Trafficking Story

File photo dated January 3, 2023 shows United States Vice President Kamala Harris administers the Oath of Office to US Senator Katie Britt (Republican of Alabama) while her husband Wesley Britt holds a bible, and her daughters Debra and Julian Boyd look on, during a ceremonial swearing-in at the U.S. Capitol’s Old Senate Chamber in Washington, DC, USA. In her first interview since delivering her widely ridiculed rebuttal to Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech, Republican senator Katie Britt refused to apologize for invoking a story about child rape that she implied resulted from the president’s handling of the ongoing crisis at the southern US border – even though the abuse occurred years earlier in Mexico while her party controlled the White House. Photo by Cliff Owen/CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Katie Britt Defends Her False Sex Trafficking Story

File photo dated March 22, 2023 shows United States Senator Katie Britt (Republican of Alabama), left, and United States Senator Todd Young (Republican of Indiana) depart the Senate Republican’s policy luncheon at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, USA. In her first interview since delivering her widely ridiculed rebuttal to Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech, Republican senator Katie Britt refused to apologize for invoking a story about child rape that she implied resulted from the president’s handling of the ongoing crisis at the southern US border – even though the abuse occurred years earlier in Mexico while her party controlled the White House. Photo by Rod Lamkey/CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Katie Britt Defends Her False Sex Trafficking Story

File photo dated February 14, 2023 shows United States Senator Katie Britt (Republican of Alabama) questions the witnesses during a Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs hearing to examine the crypto crash, focusing on why financial system safeguards are needed for digital assets, in the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, DC, USA. In her first interview since delivering her widely ridiculed rebuttal to Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech, Republican senator Katie Britt refused to apologize for invoking a story about child rape that she implied resulted from the president’s handling of the ongoing crisis at the southern US border – even though the abuse occurred years earlier in Mexico while her party controlled the White House. Photo by Rod Lamkey/CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Japan, China in verbal war at U.N.

NEW YORK, United States - Li Baodong (L), Chinese ambassador to the United Nations, speaks at the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Sept. 27, 2012, as part of a verbal war between top officials from Japan and China. After Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi and Kazuo Kodama, the Japanese deputy ambassador to the United Nations, exchanged words over the sovereignty of a cluster of islands in the East China Sea, Li said in his subsequent rebuttal, "The recent so-called island purchase by the Japanese government is nothing different from money laundering."

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Japan, China in verbal war at U.N.

NEW YORK, United States - Combination photo shows Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi (L) and Kazuo Kodama, the Japanese deputy ambassador to the United Nations, addressing the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Sept. 27, 2012. Yang accused Japan of stealing a cluster of islands in the East China Sea and "grossly" violating Chinese sovereignty in the process, while the Japanese envoy said in a rebuttal session following Yang's speech that the Senkaku Islands are "clearly an inherent territory of Japan based on historical facts and international law."

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Japan refutes China speech

NEW YORK, United States - The Japanese deputy ambassador to the United Nations, Kazuo Kodama, speaks at the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Sept. 27, 2012. In a rebuttal session following a speech of Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, the Japanese envoy said the Senkaku Islands are "clearly an inherent territory of Japan based on historical facts and international law."

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Japan ruling camp rams security bills through lower house

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meets with reporters in Tokyo on July 16, 2015, after the House of Representatives approved controversial security bills to expand the role of the Self-Defense Forces abroad. "The security situation surrounding Japan has become increasingly severe. In this recognition, we absolutely need the bills to ensure people's lives and to prevent war from occurring," Abe said, in an apparent rebuttal of critics who have labeled the bills "war legislation." (Kyodo) ==Kyodo