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Alternet: ‘Corrupt’ Trump official used new access for personal gain 100 times in first 5 months: report

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the Democrat from Massachusetts, on Tuesday released a report chronicling over 100 examples of “unethical or potentially corrupt actions” that either benefit billionaire Elon Musk or one of his companies and which took place while Musk played a key role in the Trump administration.

According to the report, the past few months have been very profitable for Musk, who officially departed the White House last week. “Since Election Day, Musk’s staggering net worth has increased by over $100 billion,” the report states.

‘Corrupt’ Trump official used new access for personal gain 100 times in first 5 months: report

https://www.alternet.org/trump-administration-corrupt

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‘To Remove As Many Foreigners As Possible’: Rep. Dan Goldman Exposes Trump’s White Supremacist Plan During Press Briefing
During a press briefing today, Congressman Dan Goldman speaks out against ICE agents camping outside courts to detain immigrants who are lawfully seeking asylum. Rep. Goldman notes that the actions by the Trump Administration have nothing to do with securing the border or fixing the immigration system, but are instead a white supremacist attempt to ‘remove as many foreigners as possible from this country’ to recreate the 1950s.

This has been my personal theory all along, glad to see someone else has the same perception. In approximately 20 years — sometime around 2045 — whites will no longer be a majority in the U.S.A.

Trump & crew are desperately trying to hold off this change by removing as many non-whites as they can from circulation; immigrants (make as many as possible “illegal” by terminating their refugees status) and students (cancel their visas) are the obvious targets, all the while opening the gates to white supremacists fleeing the consequences of their past apartheid practices in South Africa.

Trump himself has a long history as a known racist in the New York City housing market. He hasn’t changed.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/to-remove-as-many-foreigners-as-possible-rep-dan-goldman-exposes-trump-s-white-supremacist-plan-during-press-briefing/vi-AA1FKrAN

Alternet: ‘Fake news and propaganda’: MTG erupts at Musk’s ‘non-human AI’ after it doubts her faith

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Grok – the artificial intelligence (AI) built for X owner Elon Musk’s social media platform – recently questioned whether Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) was a real Christian, which was apparently a bridge too far for the far-right lawmaker.

The Daily Beast first reported on the spat between Greene and Grok, noting that it began with one X user asking Grok whether Greene was “really a Christian” in response to a tweet in which she called herself “an imperfect sinner saved by grace and faith in Jesus.” The AI told the user: “Greene’s Christian nationalism and support for conspiracy theories, like QAnon, spark debate.”

“Critics, including religious leaders, argue her actions contradict Christian values of love and unity,” Grok added, after saying “whether she’s ‘really’ a Christian is subjective.”

Poor Marjorie!

https://www.alternet.org/mtg-musk-ai

Daily Digest: Trump’s latest controversy: the moment he insulted the South African president to his face

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According to Reuters, [South African President Cyril] Ramaphosa expected to mend diplomatic relations with the United States, after the Trump Administration decided to cut humanitarian aid, expelled the South African ambassador and offered refuge to white Afrikaners.

Instead, the US President confronted the South African leader with claims of white genocide and illegal land expropriations, which have been described by Reuters as patently false.

The BBC reports that Trump showed Ramaphosa a video, depicting several crosses along a road. The US President claimed that those were the burial sites of of murdered white farmers in South Africa.

According to the BBC, the video appears to be from a 2020 protest over a murdered farming couple in the Kwazulu-Natal province, with the crosses representing murdered farmers over the years.

Trumpian diplomacy = fake videos! Henry Kissinger would be so impressed! Not!

This White House is just a friggin’ joke!

Trump’s latest controversy: the moment he insulted the South African president to his face
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https://www.msn.com/en-ph/news/other/trump-s-latest-controversy-the-moment-he-insulted-the-south-african-president-to-his-face/ss-AA1Fh8rR

Fox News: White House shuts down reporter’s ‘ridiculous’ challenge of White South African farmer deaths

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‘What’s unsubstantiated about the video?’ [Bimbo #1] Leavitt said

The White House pushed back against statements from a reporter challenging statements from the Trump administration regarding the treatment of White South African farmers — after President Donald Trump showed a video allegedly depicting burial sites of them at the White House on Wednesday. 

While hosting South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Trump aired a video in the Oval Office that showed white crosses that Trump said were approximately 1,000 burial sites of White Afrikaner South African farmers. Trump has claimed these farmers are being forced off of their land. 

But Yamiche Alcindor with NBC News questioned White House Press Secretary [& Bimbo #1] Karoline Leavitt on the credibility of the video, amid reports that the crosses were from a memorial demonstration following the murder of a White farming couple, not actual burial sites.

Trump never lets the truth get in the way of a good fib!

White House shuts down reporter’s ‘ridiculous’ challenge of White South African farmer deaths
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt defended the video President Donald Trump aired Wednesday allegedly depicting burial sites of White South African farmers.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-shuts-down-reporters-ridiculous-challenge-white-south-african-farmer-deaths

MSNBC: In making his case against South Africa, Trump relied on ‘evidence’ that wasn’t real

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“These are burial sites,” Trump said, pointing to his video of South Africa. “Over a thousand of white farmers.” His evidence, however, wasn’t real.

Ordinarily, Donald Trump isn’t the kind of guy who’s overly concerned with evidence. The president relies on preconceived ideas, assorted conspiracy theories, rumors he’s heard via conservative media and routine assumptions he creates out of whole cloth, but he’s never shown any real interest in concepts such as proof and substantiation.

But when he sat down with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, and Trump wanted to make a case against his guest’s home country, the Republican suddenly became deeply invested in evidence, holding a pile of printed articles that he offered as support for his baseless claims about South Africa. The American president even showed a video intended to bolster his “white genocide” conspiracy theories: It featured what Trump said were “burial sites” of “over 1,000” white farmers in South Africa.

But the evidence of racial persecution against white South Africans was not what Trump said it was. The New York Times reported:

A New York Times analysis found that the footage instead showed a memorial procession on Sept. 5, 2020, near Newcastle, South Africa. The event, according to a local news website, was for a white farming couple in the area who the police said had been murdered in late August of that year. The crosses were planted in the days ahead of the event and were later removed.

The Washington Post came to the same conclusion about the validity of the video shown in the Oval Office. (An NBC News report didn’t include a related analysis.)

“These are burial sites right here. Burial sites. Over a thousand of white farmers,” Trump declared as if he were certain that his evidence was real.

He was plainly and demonstrably wrong. The American president didn’t just peddle conspiracy theories more commonly found on fringe websites, he also aired “video evidence” that he brazenly misrepresented.

In making his case against South Africa, Trump relied on ‘evidence’ that wasn’t real
“These are burial sites,” Trump said, pointing to his video of South Africa. “Over a thousand of white farmers.” His evidence, however, wasn’t real.

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/making-case-south-africa-trump-relied-evidence-wasnt-real-rcna208493

Sun: Bizarre moment Trump plays ‘white genocide’ video as he schools President Ramaphosa in fiery White House meeting

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Trump handed out article printouts that he said proved his point

PRESIDENT Donald Trump confronted South Africa’s leader with a video he claimed supported his allegations of white persecution in the country.

Trump dimmed the lights and shushed President Cyril Ramaphosa in a bizarre moment where he showed the video that purported to show evidence of a genocide of white farmers in South Africa.

Trump hosted Ramaphosa at the White House on Wednesday to confront him about claims that South Africa’s government isn’t punishing people who kill white farmers.

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Ramaphosa tried to speak to Trump while the clip started to play, but Trump pointed at the video, telling him to pay attention.

Jerk! And later King Donald admits that it might all have been a pile of BS:

Following the meeting, Trump said he wasn’t sure if there was a genocide happening in South Africa or not.

Trump has cut off foreign aid to South Africa based on the claims, which stem from a land reform law.

He accused the country’s government of taking land from white farmers and fuelling violence against them with “hateful rhetoric and government actions.”

Given South Africa’s history of apartheid, some redistribution of land and other resources is to be expected.

Trump plays ‘white genocide’ vid in front of South African prez in tense moment
PRESIDENT Donald Trump confronted South Africa’s leader with a video he claimed supported his allegations of white persecution in the country. Trump dimmed the lights and shushed President Cy…

https://www.the-sun.com/news/14291741/trump-south-africa-genocide-video-president-ramaphosa

Ynet News: Trump shows genocide videos to South African president, who quips: ‘Sorry I don’t have a plane to give you’

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U.S. President Donald Trump requested staff screen videos allegedly showing instances of genocide against White residents in South Africa during his meeting with President Cyril Ramaphosa at the White House.

What a jerk!

Ramaphosa, who sat quietly watching videos showing politicians calling to kill white farmers, later said: “I would like to know where this is from; this I’ve never seen.” He then took a jab at Trump, saying: “I’m sorry I don’t have a plane to give you,” to which the American president responded: ‘If you had a plane to bring me, I would take it.’

Once a grifter, always a grifter.

Trump shows genocide videos to South African president, who quips: ‘Sorry I don’t have a plane to give you’
U.S. President Donald Trump requested staff screen videos allegedly showing instances of genocide against White residents in South Africa during his meeting with President Cyril Ramaphosa at the White House. Ramaphosa, who sat quietly watching videos showing politicians calling to kill white farmers, later said: “I would like to know where this is from this I’ve never seen.” He then took a jab at Trump, saying: “I’m sorry I don’t have a plane to give you,” to which the American president responded: ‘If you had a plane to bring me, I would take it.’

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/p2op76beq

MSNBC: My family experienced apartheid. I know Afrikaners aren’t refugees.

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If the Episcopal Church had agreed to resettle South African Boers, then it would have elevated a lie that will affect refugee resettlement for years to come.

The combination of the Trump administration granting expedited refugee status to white South Africans and the Episcopal Church ending a 40-year partnership with the federal government rather than help resettle fake refugees leaves me with contradictory feelings.

As an Episcopal priest and a dual citizen of the United States and South Africa, I am proud of the Episcopal Church for standing up and speaking out about the U.S. government’s lies of a white “genocide” in South Africa. In equal measure, I am devastated that the work our church has done for decades, giving hope and care to people forced to leave their homelands, is ending because of white supremacy and Christian nationalism.

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If the Episcopal Church had agreed to resettle South African Boers, then it would have elevated a lie that will affect refugee resettlement for years to come. If white South Africans are experiencing genocide, then it is truly an enviable genocide. White South Africans, who are about 7% of the country’s population, own about 75% of South Africa’s farmland and control a great majority of senior corporate positions. Our Palestinian brothers and sisters experiencing a true genocide would likely be happy if they had control over 30% of their ancestral land.

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The Episcopal Church has taken a moral stand. The Boers who arrived on U.S. soil this week are not refugees. They are white people using their privilege to leap over legitimate refugees who have been waiting to escape political repression and life-threatening situations.

Opinion | I knew the pain of apartheid. How dare Trump embrace Afrikaners as refugees.
If the Episcopal Church had agreed to resettle South African Boers, then it would have elevated a lie that will affect refugee resettlement for years to come.

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-afrikaners-apartheid-refugees-genocide-rcna206660

Western Journal: Ruling South African Party Furious After White Refugees Escape to US; Want ‘Accountability for Historic Privilege’

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The Episcopal Church rejected the Trump administration’s request for assistance, saying it would not help the 59 South African refugees that arrived in the U.S. on Monday.

The church’s presiding bishop, Sean Rowe, took it a step further and said the Episcopal Migration Ministries would be terminating its 40-year-old partnership with the U.S. government, according to a statement from the church published Monday.

“In light of our church’s steadfast commitment to racial justice and reconciliation and our historic ties with the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, we are not able to take this step,” Rowe’s statement read.

“Accordingly, we have determined that, by the end of the federal fiscal year, we will conclude our refugee resettlement grant agreements with the U.S. federal government,” Rowe said.

In January, President Donald Trump signed an executive order largely suspending the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program, a program the church participated in, to control the immigration crisis created by the Biden administration.

“Then, just over two weeks ago, the federal government informed Episcopal Migration Ministries that under the terms of our federal grant, we are expected to resettle white Afrikaners from South Africa whom the U.S. government has classified as refugees,” Rowe said in his Monday statement.

Ruling South African Party Furious After White Refugees Escape to US; Want ‘Accountability for Historic Privilege’
After 40 years, in which it settled nearly 110,000 refugees, the Episcopal Church ended its refugee agreement with the federal government.
Ruling South African Party Furious After White Refugees Escape to US, Wanted to Impose ‘Accountability for Historic Privilege’