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Trump Showed South Africa's President Video of a 'Burial Site' as Proof of 'Genocide.' It Was From a Protest Years Ago

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks while launching a new plan for Americans to receive booster shots and vaccinations against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), onstage in an auditorium on the White House campus in Washington, U.S. October 25, 2022. (Credit: Reuters)

President Donald Trump presented South African President Cyril Ramaphosa with a video he claimed proved a "white farmer genocide"—but the footage actually showed a 2020 protest, not a mass grave.

In a dimly lit Oval Office presentation Wednesday, Trump showed Ramaphosa images and clips, including one of rows of white crosses that he said were burial markers for murdered white farmers. In reality, the video depicted a 2020 protest in Normandien following the murder of a local farming couple, according to ABC News.

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