Trump Holds Up Photo To Show South African ‘Genocide’ – But It’s from Another Country
AP Photo/Evan Vucci
President Donald Trump held up a photo purporting to prove that a “genocide” is happening in South Africa, but the image is actually from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
On Wednesday, Trump had a contentious meeting in front of reporters with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa. Trump once again falsely alleged that his counterpart is doing nothing about the supposed mass killing of white farmers. The U.S. president has even gone so far as to facilitate the resettlement of 59 Afrikaner “refugees,” who arrived in the U.S. last week.
“There is criminality in our country,” Ramaphosa conceded to Trump in their meeting in front of reporters. “People who do get killed, unfortunately, through criminal activity, are not only white people — the majority of them are Black people.”
“The farmers are not Black,” Trump interrupted. “I’m not saying that’s good or bad, but the farmers are not Black. The people are being killed in large numbers, and you saw all of those gravesites.”
“Death of people, death, death, death, horrible death, death,” the American president said as he leafed through pages of alleged reports of violence in South Africa.
AP Photo/Evan Vucci (Enhanced)
At one point, Trump held up a printout of a blog post from the far-right site American Thinker that was several months old. The post features a screenshot of a YouTube video of Red Cross workers responding to a mass rape and murder in the Goma, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which, though it is in southern Africa, is not South Africa.
