Cindy McCain Apologizes for Making Up a Race-Based Human Trafficking Story That Was a Whole-Ass Lie

Cindy McCain, the widow of Republican Sen. John McCain, ran out here and told a whole-ass lie about stopping a child-trafficking incident at an Arizona airport and even her lie was steeped in racist beliefs. Suggested Reading Trigger Warning…All of the Shocking Testimony From Diddy’s Federal Trial 13 Things You Better Know When Dealing With…

Cindy McCain, the widow of Republican Sen. John McCain, ran out here and told a whole-ass lie about stopping a child-trafficking incident at an Arizona airport and even her lie was steeped in racist beliefs.

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Iโ€™m just going to let Maverickess McCain tell it.

โ€œI came in from a trip Iโ€™d been on and I spottedโ€”it looked oddโ€”it was a woman of a different ethnicity than the child, this little toddler she had, and something didnโ€™t click with me,โ€ the anti-trafficking activist said in an interview Monday with radio station KTAR.

โ€œI went over to the police and told them what I saw and they went over and questioned her and, by God, she was trafficking that kid.โ€

McCain, co-chair of the Arizona Governorโ€™s Council on Human Trafficking wasnโ€™t finished as she added: โ€œShe was waiting for the guy who bought the child to get off an airplane.โ€

Letโ€™s go over this a bit, shall we?

First Maverickess McCain claims that she spotted a woman of a different ethnicity holding a child and instantly knew from her years of being a human-trafficking advocate or just living in racist Arizona that something wasnโ€™t right. As a race-policeย deputized by her whiteness, McCain went to the police to report the woman holding a child who didnโ€™t match the childโ€™s race because that is a race-police violation. Of course, the police responded to McCainโ€™s claims because sheโ€™s a white woman reporting something and, low and behold, Maverickess McCain was correct and her quick thinking and racist eye helped save the imaginary child from her imaginary traffickers.

Now, hereโ€™s what actually happened: โ€œPhoenix police Sgt. Armando Carbajal told KTAR on Wednesday that officers conducted a welfare check on a child at the Sky Harbor International Airport on Jan. 30 at McCainโ€™s request,โ€ the New York Post reports.

Carbajal told the news station: โ€œofficers determined there was no evidence of criminal conduct or child endangerment.โ€

McCain, 64, apologized for the incident on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/cindymccain/status/1093298377935200258?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

โ€œAt Phoenix Sky Harbor, I reported an incident that I thought was trafficking. I commend the police officers for their diligence. I apologize if anything else I have said on this matter distracts from โ€˜if you see something, say something,โ€™โ€ she wrote.

Hereโ€™s what McCainโ€™s apology shouldโ€™ve said: โ€œAt Phoenix Sky Harbor, I reported an incident that I thought was trafficking based on how we do things in Arizona, which is basically calling the police on anyone non-white. The police investigated the incident and found that I was wrong and racist-y. Thankfully, no one was shot or tasered because of my ill-informed actions and oh, about that story I told, I made all of that shit up because I canโ€™t not see myself as a hero even when I was wrong AF.โ€

There, I fixed it for you.

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