United States President Donald Trump presented false
evidence of “white genocide” in South Africa as he buttressed his point on
Wednesday.
Trump was making his case before visiting South African
leader Cyril Ramaphosa and a posse of White House correspondents.
The Trump administration has repeatedly echoed claims of
white genocide in South Africa. However, South Africa has strongly rejected the
allegations.
Multiple reports have also debunked the claims.
Trump revisited his allegation during a bilateral meeting
with Ramaphosa at the Oval Office on Wednesday.
After ambushing the South African president with a nearly
five-minute video that showed “proof of persecution”, the US president flashed
articles as evidence.
But one of the photos from the pile of reports was clearly
taken out of context.
Trump flipped to a printout of a blog post from The American
Thinker titled: ‘Let’s talk about Africa, which is where tribalism takes you’.
The featured image on the article showed Red Cross aid
workers at a scene taken from a video in February when over 100 women were
raped and burnt alive during a mass jailbreak in Goma, the Democratic Republic
of the Congo (DRC).
The incident occurred at the height of the conflict between
the M23 rebels and the Congolese army.
As Trump played the video, Ramaphosa asked if he had any
idea where in South Africa it was recorded.
Trump shook his head to say “no”.
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