US President Donald Trump showed a video film by Reuters, which was taken in the Democratic Republic of Congo as part of what he falsely introduced as evidence of mass killing the White South Africans on Wednesday.
“These are all white farmers who are buried,” Trump said, holding a copy of the article accompanied by a picture during a controversial meeting of an oval office with South African President Cyril Ramaphos.
The video published by Reuters 3 February and subsequently verified by the Team for the inspection of the news agency agency has actually shown humanitarian workers who lift the bags on the body in the Congo City of Goma. The picture was pulled out of the Reuters shot after the deadly battles with Rwanda supported by the M23 rebels.
The blog post showed Ramaphos from Trump during the White House meeting was released by an American thinker, a conservative online magazine, about conflict and racial tension in South Africa and Congo.
The post did not contain a picture, but identified it as “catching a screen on YouTube” with reference to video news on the Congo on YouTube, which attributed Reuters.
The White House did not respond to the request for a comment. Andrea Widburg, head of American Thinker editor and author of the post, wrote in response to Reuters question that Trump “incorrectly identified the image”.
She added, however, that the contribution that referred to what is called Ramaphosa “a broken, racially obsessed Marxist government”, “pointed out the growing pressure caused by white South Africans”.
The shots from which the picture were taken show a mass funeral after the M23 attack on Goma, made by Reuters Djaffar Al Catanty. Also read | “It’s not dramatic,” says Cyril Ramaphos, Netizens Mock Donald Trump – “Mic Drop, completely ignorance, shut up!” | Watch
“That day, it was extremely difficult for journalists to enter … I had to negotiate directly with the M23 and coordinate with ICRC to shoot,” said Al catants. “Reuters only have a video.”
Al catants said Trump held an article with the screen of his videos as a shock.
“With regard to the world, President Trump used my image, using what I shot in DC to try to persuade President Ramaphos that white people were killed in his country by black people,” Al Cathers said.
Washington visited Ramaphos this week to try to repair ties with the United States after the persistent criticism of Trump in recent months over South African land laws, foreign policy and alleged bad treatment of the white minority that the South Africa denies.
Trump interrupted a television meeting with Ramaphos to play a video that he said showed evidence of the genocide of white farmers in South Africa. This conspiracy theory, which spreads in extreme right -wing chat rooms, is based on false claims.
Trump then continued to overturn printed copies of articles that he said detailed murder of the White South Africans and said, “Death, death, death, terrible death”.
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