Posted on 10/15/2024 10:48:52 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Former president Donald Trump flew a newly-freed Nelson Mandela from South Africa to the United States in 1990 when there were no other options, according to a recently resurfaced report from the Los Angeles Times.
The story reappeared on X (formerly Twitter) in the context of repeated claims by Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign, and by the left-leaning media, that Trump is a racist who should not be returned to office.
The story, “Trump Takes Mandela Under His Wing,” appeared in the Times on June 25, 1990:
One of the last details to be arranged in Nelson Mandela’s hastily orchestrated tour of the United States was lining up the aircraft that would take him to the eight cities on his itinerary.
After feverish and failed negotiations with everyone from the U.S. government to private charter operators, the unlikely benefactor has turned out to be none other than Donald Trump.
Mandela and the approximately 80 people traveling with him arrived here Sunday in a Trump Shuttle 727 and will take the same plane on the rest of the tour, which ends in Los Angeles and Oakland late this week. The Trump shuttle also carried Mandela from New York to Boston on Saturday.
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Trump definitely is not a racist. But, I don’t support bringing commie Mandela to the US. Ironically, we’ve been following the S.Africa template since.
No Mandela was not in prison when he died. He was treated as a hero by many countries including the UN.
Meanwhile:
Mandela effect: Biden again brings up debunked South Africa story
NY Post ^ | 10/24/2022 | Caitlin Doornbos
Posted on 10/24/2022, 4:12:21 PM by ChicagoConservative27
President Biden again claimed over the weekend that he was detained by South African authorities while trying to visit Nelson Mandela in prison in the 1970s — despite admitting just last month that his telling of the story was false.
“I got stopped when I was a young senator trying to see Nelson Mandela in South Africa,” Biden said during a forum broadcast Sunday by left-wing outlet NowThis News. “Afterward he heard, and when he got released, he came to see me in Washington and he walked up to me [and] said, ‘Thank you.’”
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