Karoline Leavitt Defends Trump's Use of Video on White South African Farmers
Forbes Breaking NewsMay 22, 20251 min144,036 views
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- 🎯 Karoline Leavitt, Press Secretary, engaged in a heated exchange with NBC's Alcindor regarding a video President Trump showed about white South Africans.
- ❓ Alcindor questioned the veracity of the video, stating it did not show "more than a thousand burial sites of white South Africans that he said were murdered."
Leavitt's Defense of the Video's Content
- 💡 Leavitt asserted that the video did show crosses representing white farmers who were killed and politically persecuted due to their skin color.
- 🗣️ She emphasized that these crosses represented their lives and the fact that they are now dead, with their government allegedly doing nothing.
- 📰 Leavitt cited the Associated Press as substantiating the video's content, noting a picture with a caption stating each cross marks a white farmer killed in a farm murder.
- 😠 She concluded by calling the questioning "ridiculous" and suggesting Alcindor take up any claims of unsubstantiated information with the AP.
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