Image displayed by Trump of ‘White Farmers’ dead is from Congo, not from South Africa

“That day, it was extremely difficult for journalists to enter. I had to negotiate directly with the M23 and coordinate with the CIA (International Red Cross Committee) to be allowed to film,” said Al Katanty. “Only Reuters has video.”

Al Katanty said that seeing Trump holding the text with the screen capture of his video was a shock.

“In front of all over the world, President Trump used my image, used what I filmed at RDC to try to convince President Ramaphosa that in his country white people are being killed by black people,” said Al Katanty.

Ramaphosa visited Washington this week to try to fix ties with the United States after Trump’s persistent criticism in recent months over South Africa’s land laws, foreign policy and the alleged malfunction of the white minority, which South Africa denies.

Trump interrupted the televised meeting with Ramaphosa to reproduce a video that, according to him, showed evidence of genocide from white farmers in South Africa. This theory of conspiracy, which circulates in far-right chat rooms, is based on false allegations.

Trump then flipped into printed copies of texts that, he said, detailed murders of white South Africans, saying “death, death, death, horrible death.”