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Trump showed old videos, took crosses out of context in South Africa genocide claims

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  • Reliability

    35% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -42% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : Elon Musk, a South African native and a top adviser to Trump, was present for Ramaphosa's visit to the White House on Wednesday.
51% : Trump met with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday.
43% : "These are the -- these are burial sites right here," Trump said of the footage.
37% : During the meeting, Trump also displayed a printout of a blog post featuring an image of the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Trump suggested the image had been taken in South Africa.
30% : Those people are all killed," Trump added.
26% : But the footage the president pointed to in the dimmed White House room -- showing a row of crosses -- was not what Trump made it out to be.
24% : After Trump played the video, Ramaphosa said the speeches seen in Trump's video did not represent the policies of his government.
21% : During the Oval Office meeting with Trump, Ramaphosa said, "There is criminality in our country.

*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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