Trump Confronts South African President Over Genocide Claims

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U.S. President Donald Trump ambushed his South African counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office, with claims of anti-white racism and a genocide in South Africa.

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00:00South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says there is no genocide happening in his country

00:06after U.S. President Donald Trump confronted him in a White House meeting about alleged

00:12persecution of white farmers.

00:14We have many people that feel they're being persecuted and they're coming to the United

00:20States.

00:21So we take from many locations if we feel there's persecution or genocide going on.

00:27Generally they're white farmers and they're fleeing South Africa and it's a very sad thing

00:33to see but I hope we can have an explanation of that because I know you don't want that.

00:41President Ramaphosa was visiting to reset ties between the two countries after a diplomatic

00:46fallout led to cancelled aid and the expulsion of South Africa's ambassador.

00:51But instead Trump said thousands of people are fleeing South Africa for the U.S. and Australia.

00:56He even played a video filled with unverified claims of genocide.

01:00Ramaphosa pushed back strongly in what became a tense exchange.

01:04those people are all killed.

01:08Have they told you where that is Mr. President?

01:11No.

01:12I'd like to know where that is because this I've never seen.

01:18Okay.

01:19I mean it's in South Africa.

01:22After the meeting Ramaphosa told reporters there is no genocide in South Africa saying it's

01:28wrong to compare the current situation to the country's former apartheid system.

01:32Can I continue to talk to you Mr. President if it'sirsua?

01:36I'd like to talk after this here.

01:38.

01:39There's no human rights across the map as well.

01:44Not me.

01:47But, again, there's no human rights but in the silence and they're done.

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