During a contentious Oval Office meeting on Wednesday, President Donald Trump confronted South African President Cyril Ramaphosa with images and video clips that he said show an ongoing "genocide" against white farmers in the country.
But the footage the president pointed to in the dimmed White House room -- showing a row of crosses -- was not what Trump made it out to be.
"These are the -- these are burial sites right here," Trump said of the footage.
"Each one of those white things you see is a cross. And there's approximately a thousand of them. They're all white farmers, the family of white farmers. ...Those people are all killed," Trump added.
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In reality, the video shows a protest that took place on Sept. 5, 2020, near Normandien, South Africa. The protest was called over the reported murder of two farmers at their home in the area days earlier, according to the local outlet Newcastle Advertiser.
According to the outlet, the crosses were placed along a section of the protest route by volunteers.
The protest was also described in a report at the time from the South African Institute of Race Relations, which produced its own video showing the protest.
Hermann Pretorious, a spokesperson for the Institute, told ABC News, "Those crosses are not graves, yet they are crosses commemorating farm murder victims."
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