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In the middle of the meeting with the president of South Africa at the White House on Wednesday, Donald Trump suddenly asked the staff to “turn off the lights” and play a video, editing product. This, along with photocopies of articles shown by the US president, “proved” in the same allegations of “genocide” committed against white landlords in South Africa.

In this new ambush that Trump set up in a foreign leader at the Oval Office, this time in Ramasoffa, The Republican tycoon made false statements and distorted events, in the presence of South African Ilon Musk.

Although Ramafa tried unsuccessfully To counter the allegations as they were constantly interrupted by Trump, who reiterated the allegations, the French Agency and Reuters recorded mistakes and distortions in Trump’s statements, edited video and articles shown by the Republican.

In an excerpt of the video, vehicles stopped along a road, full of white crosses nailed to the ground that, according to the US president, are “burial points” of “thousands of white farmers”.

“You saw all these graves,” Trump said. “They are relatives who go, I imagine, one Sunday morning to pray in front of their loved ones who were killed,” he continued.

In fact, the video is from a demonstration in 2020 near Newcastle in eastern South Africa after the murder of a couple of farmers, according to video and media reports of that time. The couple’s killers were sentenced to life imprisonment.

The crosses in the video are no signs of real burials. One organizer then told South Africa’s public broadcaster, SABC, that the wooden crosses had been symbolically set up for farmers who had been killed in recent years.

In another scene in the edited video, a politician shouts: “We are South Africans, we occupy land.”

‘The people you saw in this video are in power’, Trump supported. In fact, the politician in this snapshot is Julius Malema, the leader of the Marxist Fighters for Economic Freedom (EFF). His party won 9.5% of the votes in last year’s elections and does not participate in the ruling coalition. He did not even participate in the previous government.

Dressed in his usual red outfit, Malema, known for his pro -Russian attitude, sings in the video the song “Kill the Boer”. This song dates back to the resistance against apartheid when the Africans controlled the country.

The song is at the center of a controversy in South Africa and its prohibition had been asked by the second largest party in South Africa, the Democratic Alliance, which has ruled in 2024 in a coalition with the ANC, the Nelson Mandela party.

In 2010, a court banned the song by characterizing hate speech, but then other judges ruled that the song was a historical slogan of liberation rather than literal motion of violence. In 2024, the Supreme Court ratified this ruling.

The case was led to the Supreme Court by the Afriftorum organization, a non -governmental organization representing the country’s white minority.

In a statement after the meeting between Trump and Ramafa, the EFF said this is “a song that expresses the desire to destroy the white minority control system on South African resources”.

“We did not know that we would be part of these theatricals in trying to justify the existence of a genocide of whites that obviously not happening σSouth Africa ‘, EFF spokesman Sinavo Thabo told Reuters.

Following the edited video he showed yesterday, the US president raised a paco with articles, which he said according to him in the murders of farmers.

One of them comes from the website “American Thinker”, a short -lived blog, reproducing a picture of people wearing Red Cross costumes carrying bags for corpses.

‘All these are white farmers buried’, said Trump.

The picture is actually a screenshot of a February YouTube video filmed in the Congo People’s Republic (GDC) in Goma, according to the caption of the video. The video shows the relics of female victims of horrifications as part of the war in the eastern part of the HRC and published by the Wion media, which used images from the Reuters agency.

“These people are killed in large numbers,” the US president insisted. And when a journalist asked him about the Boeing aircraft that donated him Qatar: “That’s what this idiot had to say after he saw something where thousands of people are dead.”

South Africa has one of the highest murder rates in the world, with an average of 72 a day, in a country of 60 million inhabitants. Most victims are black.

The murders of white farmers represent a small percentage of homicides. The Afriftorum, which launched a campaign to highlight the phenomenon, recorded 49 white farmers’ murders in 2023. This number is compared to 27,621 homicides recorded between April 2023 and March 2024 in official police statistics.

As for claims about genocideThis is a conspiracy theory that has been spread by some of the marginal groups of white South Africans since the end of Apartheid in 1994. It has been circulating in a world -wide chat rooms for at least a decade, with the staunch support of Trump’s ally.