Jim Lo Scalzo / Epa
Some of the images presented by Donald Trump to Cyril Ramaphosa did not happen in South Africa. US President also confused a burial place with a memorial. Allegations about genocide against whites are false.
“These are all white farmers who are being buried,” said Trump, holding a printed copy of an article accompanied by an image.
This and other multimedia content was shown this Thursday in the White House Oval Room to South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, in a tense and unprecedented conviction by alleged Racism against white farmers in the country.
However, Reuters pointed out this Friday that one of the videos displayed by the US President is not even recorded in South Africa-it is a picture was taken from a reports from, filmed after mortal battles with M23 rebels supported by the Rwanda in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
They are not dead farmers – they are Humanitarian workers lifting bags with bodies in the Congolese Gum.
Andrea Widburg, editor-in-chief of American Thinker and author of the newspaper’s publication in question at the White House, has also confirmed that the US president had “Identified the image incorrectly.”
The Reuters journalist who recorded the images displayed, Djaffar Al Katanty, says that “in the sight of everyone, President Trump used my image, Used what I filmed in the RDC to try to convince President Ramaphosa that in his country white people are being killed by black people“.
Another video shown displayed a line of cars on a road full of white crosses, which Trump claimed to be a place where several farmers were buried. It was, in fact, a temporary memorial.
According to data collected by Trump’s allegations about the existence of a genocide against white farmers in South Africa It is not grounded by any statistical basis. It is, yes, an allegation made in several far-right online forums, which to date has never been proven.
