US President Donald Trump at a meeting with the President of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa showed a screenshot from Reuters, claiming that he was presenting mass killings of white residents of South Africa. The agency said that the material comes from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Key facts:
- Donald Trump in the oval office on Wednesday accused Cyril of Ramaphos that in South Africa there is “white genocide”, mostly farmers.
- The President of South Africa explained that his government is against killing African farmers and stated that the victims are mainly black.
- As evidence, Trump showed an article with a screenshot of the recording attached. According to Reuters, the material comes from another country.
On Wednesday, during a meeting with Ramaphosa in the oval office, holding an article with a screenshot attached in his hand, Trump said: – These are white farmers who are hidden.
The Reuters agency reported on Thursday evening that the material from which the screenshot of Rwanda M23 militia.
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The article with the attached Reuters video material was published by the conservative American Thinker portal about conflicts South Africa and drk. Journalist American Thinker Andrea Widburg answered journalists that Trump “misunderstood” the attached picture in her material.
The operator who recorded this material for the Reuters agency at DRK Djaffar al Katanty said he was shocked when he saw the president USA with his material. “In front of the whole world, President Trump used my recording to convince President Ramaphos that in his country white people kill black,” he said.
The White House did not answer the journalists' request for comment
A busy atmosphere in the oval office
During the meeting Donald Trump With Cyril Ramaphosa, there was a sharp exchange of sentences in the oval office. The US President stated that he was accepting white Africans as refugees in the USA, because in their country there is “genocide”.
– These people are killed in many cases. They are killed and it so happens that they are white, and most of them are farmers, and this is a difficult situation. I don't know how to explain it. How to explain that they take the land from people? And in many cases these people are killed – said Trump.
He stated that America was “flooded” with Africans who wanted to escape from the country, although only a few dozen were adopted so far, and interest in emigration was to express about eight thousand. However, the South African leader claimed that his government was against the reception of land and killing African farmers.
The US leader also displayed a four -minute film showing South African radical politicians, shouting the slogans calling for “killing the beetroot”, and the graves of killed white farmers and their families.
Ramaphosa replied that the politicians presented in the films were representatives of the radical opposition – Julius Malema and the former president Jacob Zumaand his government condemns their rhetoric, does not support the reception of land. He claimed that killings are the work of criminals, and their victims are mostly black South African citizens.
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