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Tensions rose as the South African president and golfers Ernie Els and Retief Goosen met President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, addressing claims of violence against Afrikaners.
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"That's what that idiot talks about after viewing a thing where thousands of people are dead," Trump said of NBC's Peter Alexander and his question.
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John Eligon, Johannesburg bureau chief, recounts what he witnessed in the Oval Office when President Trump confronted the visiting President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa with an elaborate presentation attempting to falsely prove a "genocide" against white Afrikaners.
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President Trump showed a video and leafed through printouts of what he said was evidence of racial persecution of white South Africans. The country's president tried to correct the record.
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