How can you say something you claim you did not say - but you are caught saying it?

https://news.yahoo.com/news/rich-lowry-denies-blurting-n-211539805.html
Conservative: I Didn’t Call Haitians N-Word During Megyn Kelly Interview

Rich Lowry, editor-in-chief of the conservative magazine the National Review, denies saying the N-word during his Sunday appearance on The Megyn Kelly Show. Lowry was discussing baseless claims about Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, when he seemed to stumble over his words.

In the clip, which began trending across social media on Monday, Lowry said, “They’ve only found two Springfield residents calling to complain about Haitian migrants taking geese from ponds.” However, a number of users on social media are saying that, before he corrected himself, it sounded like Lowry used the N-word instead of “migrants.”

In a reply to the post, Andrew McCarthy, a colleague of Lowry’s at the National Review, came to his defense. “Ridiculous,” he wrote, “@richlowry (not tagged here, natch) obviously got crossed up between ‘immigrants’ (short i) and migrants (long i) -- started mispronouncing ‘migrants’ with short i; instantly corrected himself with no embarrassment because it was patently a mispronunciation. Geez.”

Lowry himself soon after agreed with McCarthy’s characterization of what happened. He replied on X, “I began to mispronounce the word ‘migrants’ and caught myself halfway through.”

But of course the bitch defends this...
Kelly also backed Lowry’s character in response to the clip. “This is so disgusting and obviously leveled by someone that doesn’t know @RichLowry at all,” she posted on X. “A finer, more gracious man of good character you will never meet.”

How can you say something you claim you did not say - but you are caught saying it?
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