Trump's Tweet About South Africa Doesn't Fit With the Facts
President Donald Trump wrote a tweet mentioning the word “Africa†for the first time in his presidency late Wednesday.
That tweet conveyed the news that he had just instructed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to look into “farm seizures†and “the large scale killing of farmers†in South Africa.
Posted at just past 10 p.m., the tweet credited Fox News host and commentator Tucker Carlson – who had presented a piece about South African farmers earlier that evening.
Read more at: http://time.com/5376453/donald-trump-south-africa-white-farmers/
South Africa has about 55 million people. The article goes on to say last year, 46 farmers (stats not kept according to race) in South Africa were killed. That is down from 153 farmers killed in 1998, the peak of violence.
