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Trump confronts South African president with false genocide claims

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    25% ReliableLimited

  • Policy Leaning

    50% Medium Right

  • Politician Portrayal

    -63% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

38% : He said he had not seen it before, and that he would like to find out what the location was. Trump then displayed printed copies of articles that he said showed White South Africans who had been killed, saying "death, death" as he flipped through them.
34% : Ramaphosa arrived saying he wanted to discuss trade and critical minerals, and the meeting got off to a cordial start as he and Trump exchanged remarks about golf.
25% : But the televised Oval Office meeting soon took a different course, with Trump showing a video and printed articles purporting to show evidence to back up his unfounded claims that White South Africans are being persecuted.
22% : The video shown by Trump showed white crosses which Trump said were the graves of thousands of white people, and opposition leaders making incendiary speeches.
22% : Trump suggested that one of them, Julius Malema, should be arrested.
19% : Trump cut him off and said: "The farmers are not Black.
18% : In recent months, Trump has criticized the land reform law and South Africa's genocide court case against Israel.
16% : Their land is being confiscated, and in many cases, they're being killed," said Trump in one of a series of accusations.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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