|
During a meeting with South Africa's president, President Trump played the video as evidence of racial persecution. A Times analysis found he misrepresented the contents of the video.
|
|
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.
|
|
"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.
|
|
Ramaphosa survives mauling by Trump over 'white genocide' BBCTrump Claimed a Social Media Video Showed ‘Burial Sites' of White Farmers. It Didn't. The New York TimesAnderson Cooper 360 CNNTrump ambushes South Africa's president with false claims of 'white genocide' NPRFact-checking Trump's claims of white farmer ‘genocide' in South Africa PBS
|
|
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.
|
|
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.
|
|
