The image of Trump of “white farmers” dead came from the filmed of Reuters in Congo, not S/Africa – Thage

The President of the United States Donald Trump showed a screenshot of a video of Reuters shot in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as part of what he falsified falsely on Wednesday as a test of mass murders of South Africans.

“These are all white farmers who are buried,” said Trump, supporting a print of an article accompanied by the image during a controversial meeting of the oval office with the South African president Ciril Ramaphosa.

In fact, the video, published by Reuters on February 3 and subsequently verified by the control team of the facts of the press agency, showed to humanitarian operators who raise bags in the Congolese city of Goma. The image was extracted from the Reuters movie shot following fatal battles with M23 rebels supported by Rwanda.

The blog post shown in Ramaphosa of Trump during the meeting of the White House was published by American Thinker, a conservative online magazine, on conflicts and on racial tensions in South Africa and Congo.

The post has not subtitled the image, but identified it as a “Grab of the YouTube screen” with a link to a video report on the Congo on YouTube, which has credited to Reuters.

The White House did not respond to a commentary request. Andrea Widburg, American Thinker’s editor in chief and the author of The Post in question, wrote in response to a request for Reuters according to which Trump had “erroneously identified the image”.

He added, however, that the post, which referred to what called the Marxist government “dysfunctional and obsessed with the race” of Ramaphosa, had “underlined the growing pressure on the white South Africans”.

The movie from which the image was taken shows a mass burial following an assault M23 in Goma, shot by the video journalist of Reuters Djaffar at Kasty.

“That day, it was extremely difficult for journalists to enter … I had to negotiate directly with M23 and coordinate with the ICRC to be authorized to film,” he told Kanty. “Only Reuters has video.”

“In light of the whole world, President Trump used my image, he used what I filmed in DRC to try to convince President Ramaphosa that in his country the whites are killed by the blacks,” he told Kasty.

Ramaphosa visited Washington this week to try to repair the ties with the United States after persistent criticisms by Trump in recent months on the laws on the land of South Africa, on foreign policy and on the alleged bad treatment of its white minority, which denies South Africa.

Trump interrupted the television meeting with Ramaphosa to play a video, which showed that he showed tests of genocide of white farmers in South Africa. This conspiracy theory, which has circulated in extreme right chat room for years, is based on false statements.

Trump then proceeded to browse printed copies of articles that said detailed murders of South Africans Bianchi, saying “death, death, death, horrible death”. Reuters/ Businessday

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