The White House withdrew against statements from a reporter challenging statements by the Trump administration about the treatment of South African white farmers – after President Donald Trump showed a video allegedly describing their burial places in the White House on Wednesday.
While waiting for South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Trump broadcast a video at the Oval Office showing the white crosses that Trump said there were approximately 1,000 burial places of white African farmers of South Africa.
Trump has claimed that these farmers are being killed and forced by their land.
But Yamiche Alcindor with NBC News questioned the White House press secretary Caroline Leavitt for the reliability of the video, amidst reports that the crosses were from a memorial demonstration after the killing of a white agricultural couple, not in the current burial sites.
“We know this was not true and that the video was not true,” Alcindor said during the White House press conference.
Leavitt and Alcindor Sparred and talked about each other, with Alcindor asking, “What protocols are in place when there is unfounded information that is being put on world and world leaders?”
Leavitt then went inside and ended the exchange, claiming that the video was not unfounded.
“What’s what is unfounded about the video?” Said Leavitt.
“The video shows the crosses representing the corpses of the people who are rationally persecuted by their government. In fact, the Associated Press, of all countries, has a photograph of that monument in the title by the Associated Press is ‘each cross marks a white farmer who was killed in a farm murder.'”
“So it is proven. But it is not just from that video and physical evidence that everyone saw on the show at the Oval office, but also from another outlet in this by the Associated Press,” Leavitt said.
“So you have to take it with you if you believe the claim is unfounded. And that’s a funny line of questions.”
The crosses described were part of a demonstration that occurred after a white, agricultural couple was killed in 2020, according to the Associated Press, citing local news reports from South Africa.
Trump told Ramaphosa in the White House that the roads of the road are visited by those who want to “respect for their family member who was killed”.
“Have you told you where this is, Mr. President?” Ramaphosa said.
“I would like to know where this is. Because that I have never seen.”
“I mean, it’s in South Africa, here it is,” Trump said.
“We have to discover,” Ramaphosa said.
FOX News Greg Norman contributed to this report.
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