Politifact: Trump tweets incorrect on South African land seizures, farmer killings

[TomSea]

Trump tweets incorrect on South African land seizures, farmer killings

By Katie Akin on Friday, August 24th, 2018 at 4:56 p.m.

Fox News host Tucker Carlson and President Donald Trump are among a group of U.S. conservatives raising alarm bells about something happening half a world away in South Africa.

"The president of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, has begun ... seizing land from his own citizens without compensation because they are the wrong skin color," Tucker began his show Aug. 22. "That is literally the definition of racism."

Trump chimed in soon thereafter on Twitter, tagging accounts for both Carlson and Fox News and going even further to decry murders of farmers. Trump said that he had asked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to investigate "the South Africa land and farm seizures and expropriations and the large scale killing of farmers."

Read more at: https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/aug/24/donald-trump/trump-tweets-incorrect-south-african-land-seizures/

[INVAR]

Actually, Trump is not wrong about this at all.

Mass slaughter of White farmers and the seizing of farms by force is a fact and government policy in South Africa now.

[goatprairie]

Fact:  white S. African farmers are being murdered and having their farms stolen under approval from the SA government.
Lie: Politifact denial of the fact that SA farmers are being murdered and having their farms stolen by the government.
The liberal liars do the usual obfuscation about apartheid and past injustices while minimizing  the murders and the expropriations
Typical leftist hogwash/lies by Politifact.

[dfwgator]

[skeeter]

Their "Truthometer" might need a total rebuild, they're really grinding the gears 'refuting' these facts.

The left have all the characteristics of bona fide holocaust deniers. Wherever their worldview is challenged their capacity for rationalization and deception is frightening.

People are being robbed and killed and they don't care because their agenda doesn't benefit by their caring.

[INVAR]

Ramaphosa last month announced plans to amend the constitution to allow the state to take land without paying for it to address skewed ownership patterns that date back to apartheid and colonial rule.

[DB]

Ramaphosa last month announced plans to amend the constitution to allow the state to take land without paying for it to address skewed ownership patterns that date back to apartheid and colonial rule.

Stupid idiots. They should have learned from the west's way of dealing with these sort of issues in a politically correct way... Tax it out of existence...