White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt defended President Donald Trump’s claim that a video showed a burial site for white farmers in South Africa during a press briefing. NBC News correspondent Yamiche Alcindor challenged Leavitt, revealing that the video depicted a memorial of crosses for a farming couple killed in 2020, not a burial site for numerous victims.
Leavitt asserted the video represented white farmers killed due to racial persecution, while Alcindor emphasized the embellishment and lack of evidence for genocide claims in South Africa.
Research indicates that incidents of violence against farmers in South Africa do not equate to genocide, with recent reports documenting a small number of murder cases since 1990.
