I just got off a 40-minute phone conversation with Rep. Jenny Graham about this voicemail and the story that prompted it. A few takeaways in this thread. (1/5)
She knows she screwed up. She calls it a “human” moment and says she’ll take whatever “comeuppance” might come. She said her words came from a place of hurt and rage over lived experiences with abuse and sex trafficking. (2/5)
Rep. Graham: “I do plan to apologize (to @danielwinlander). He wronged me Brandi, but that doesn’t mean he deserved me calling him what I did.”
Walters has stood by his reporting and says Graham has not pointed out any specific factual inaccuracies. (3/5)
In speaking to Graham, it seems she takes more of an issue with the overall point of the piece. She said she shared a link about human trafficking in good faith, unaware of the conspiracy theories they would direct people to (which Walters acknowledged in his story). (4/5)
Graham, whose sister was trafficked before being killed by the Green River Killer in 1982, says she
felt that the story downplayed the seriousness of what sex trafficking victims face by focusing on the conspiracies she unwittingly shared. (5/5)
More later.
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