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.

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      7 hours ago

      You’ve misread the conversation. I’m not the one asking for the obvious.

      And i like your comment, btw, it’s well written.

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        7 hours ago

        Please explain.

        Edit: I see your edit… But I must still be misreading the conversation.
        Even after double checking the username, you were the one that said, “Such as?”

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          I edited my reply a little.

          The person i was talking to is the one that hasn’t read the article and it’s asking questions in bad faith. I was asking them to clarify what was confusing them, basically, Knowing they were asking in bad faith.

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          Seeing your edit:

          Yes. Such as what are you talking about? Because the article clearly explained it. If you follow the conversation it’s clear what i was asking for.

          It doesn’t matter. They’re still denying trump lied about it, so I was right in my original assumptions of them.