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    8/23/2018 6:38 am  #1

    Goose
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    Trump Meddles in South Africa. Gets Facts Wrong

    Donald J. Trump
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    I have asked Secretary of State @SecPompeo to closely study the South Africa land and farm seizures and expropriations and the large scale killing of farmers. “South African Government is now seizing land from white farmers.” @TuckerCarlson @FoxNews



    A BBC Reality Check investigation in November found there was no reliable data to suggest farmers were at greater risk of being murdered than the average South African.



    South Africa rejects Donald Trump's tweet on farmer killings
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-45282088

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    8/23/2018 6:43 am  #2

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    Trump posted the tweet around 10:30 p.m. EST, shortly after Fox News' "Tucker Carlson Tonight" aired a report that called the seizures "far more racist than anything Donald Trump has ever done."

    https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-orders-study-south-african-land-seizures-alleged/story?id=57350192


    The guy is the President. He has access to better information sources than does anybody in the world.
    Yet Trump gets his 'intelligence briefings' sitting in his underwear watching Tucker, and Fox and Friends.

    We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists. 
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    8/23/2018 11:38 am  #3

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    Re: Trump Meddles in South Africa. Gets Facts Wrong

    Trump gets facts wrong ..... STOP THE PRESSES !  

    "Do not confuse motion and progress, A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress"
     
     

    8/23/2018 1:06 pm  #4

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    Interesting that the first time in anyone's memory that Trump tweets the word 'Africa', it's in the defense of white people.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/08/23/trump-directs-pompeo-to-investigate-south-african-land-redistribution-after-foxs-tucker-carlson-raises-alarm/?utm_term=.fc9224462d99

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