Katie Britt defends sex trafficking story she falsely links to Biden presidency

Republican denied hiding fact that the abuse she referred to in her State of the Union rebuttal had actually occurred during Bush era

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.

Britt, 42, appeared on Fox News Sunday and denied hiding the fact that the rape and sex trafficking case to which she referred had actually occurred during the presidency of George W Bush. She also made it a point to criticize what she called the liberal media" for how they have covered her rebuttal to Biden's speech on Thursday, which earned being parodied on the latest episode of Saturday Night Live.