Posted on 08/30/2018 5:00:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
President Donald Trump’s promotion of a white nationalist conspiracy theory involving South Africa prompted fierce backlash there Thursday and fresh criticism in the United States that he is compromising American foreign policy to stoke his far-right political base.
Former U.S. diplomats and South African leaders denounced Trump’s declaration in a tweet late Wednesday that he had instructed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to monitor the “large scale killing” of white farmers and the government’s expropriations of their land.
White nationalist groups have for years spread false claims about the murder rates, which have been widely debunked. Local police data show the number of people murdered on farms has dropped by half over the past two decades – from 140 in 2001-2002 to 74 in 2016-2017, according to the Associated Press.
Trump‘s tweet appeared to come in response to a segment on Fox News in which host Tucker Carlson railed against a plan from South Africa‘s ruling party to pursue constitutional changes allowing the government to redistribute land without compensation. The measure is designed to redress racial inequalities that have persisted nearly a quarter-century after the end of apartheid in 1994....
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SA, on the Zimbabwe path to become worse than Venezuela.
Good Luck peeps.
Since this story is outside thier standard template they wanted it to stay buried.With a Presidential Tweet highlighting it all they can do now is lie and dissemble.
ocal police data show the number of people murdered on farms has dropped by half over the past two decades – from 140 in 2001-2002 to 74 in 2016-2017, according to the Associated Press.
” Local police data show the number of people murdered on farms has dropped by half over the past two decades – from 140 in 2001-2002 to 74 in 2016-2017,”
Is that drop due to the fact they are running out of white people to kill? How sad.
Jeff Flake & Coons weigh in...how sick their hatred of Trump to go after him while people are getting butchered
There are no social media Share options....it is so obvious they are shuffling over this issue.
i suggest that these trump detractors who are white go visit south africa as a tourist and visit all the less good places in the country. Dont forget to flash your cash.
I suggest they also make their wills out first.
These critics of the President are really grasping at straws now. They’ll throw anything against the wall to see if it sticks.
South Africa is actually amending their Constitution to make this practice fully legal.. WITHOUT compensation.
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