Other images displayed by Trump during meeting with South African president Cyril Ramaphosa were false or misleading
The evidence of supposed mass killings of white South Africans presented by Donald Trump in a tense White House meeting on Wednesday were in some cases images from the Democratic Republic of Congo, while footage shown during the meeting was falsely portrayed as depicting “burial sites”.
“These are all white farmers that are being buried,” said Trump, holding up a print-out of an article accompanied by a picture during the contentious Oval Office meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.
The picture accompanying the article was in fact a screengrab of a video published by Reuters on 3 February and subsequently verified by the news agency’s fact check team, showing humanitarian workers lifting body bags in the Congolese city of Goma. The image was pulled from Reuters footage shot after deadly battles with Rwanda-backed M23 rebels.
It’s a government official making a claim based on easily verifiable bad evidence, so if the whole thing wasn’t suspect before, it most certainly is now, right? Why should we give the benefit of the doubt? Not only has the administration not earned that right, they’ve shown over and over again that they don’t extend that benefit to anyone else.
It fucking amazes me that we don’t hold our leaders to a higher standard, and it worries me that people don’t seem to want to.
If it is easily verifiable, then how about we verify it right now? So what about those other cases not from Congo?
Because people are dead, and it is the choice between “ingore” or “start and investigation”
I agree trump is a hack, but I want to know about those other cases.
Try reading the article for starters.
I did read it. It is one of those articles with a clear political bias, trying to spin the story as if all of it is false because one thing was false. Anyone eating it up is doing so because they either can’t think for themselves or don’t want to.
Are you done following me around in this thread?
Ah so you’re just a lie spreading propagandist
Ad hominem
Pointing out what you’re doing is not attacking you.
Where did I lie? Where is my propaganda? You’re labelling me as such without any evidence. That’s an attack on me, not my argument. It is utterly pathetic behavior from someone who moderates communities. We’re done here.
Yes, when someone says have a good night it means you’re done.