Trump falsely claims Australia being ‘inundated’ by white South Africans fleeing ‘genocide’

‘They’re being executed,’ US president tells Cyril Ramaphosa in chaotic meeting in Oval Office

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Donald Trump has falsely claimed that Australia is being “inundated” with white South Africans who have fled their farms, repeating a baseless conspiracy theory that white people in South Africa are being systematically murdered and their land expropriated.

The US president held a chaotic meeting with the South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa, in the Oval Office of the White House, during which played a video he falsely claimed proved “genocide” was being committed against white people in South Africa, under what he described as “the opposite of apartheid”.