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In a bizarre and troubling move, Trump recently shared a Facebook post with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa that originated from a fringe South African account that posts racist imagery and flat Earth conspiracies.
The account, discovered by MeidasTouch's review of high-resolution photos from the event, is run by a man named Paul Hattingh of South Africa, who spreads white nationalist narratives, hateful imagery, and promotes theological interpretations of the Bible to justify a cosmology that rejects a spinning globe Earth.
During his meeting, Trump held up Hattingh's Facebook post from a collection of "articles" that Trump shared as part of his larger narrative attempting to legitimize the debunked claim that white South African farmers are being systematically murdered in a state-backed genocidea conspiracy theory long discredited.
What makes Trump's sharing of the post especially disturbing is the origin: a Facebook account filled with offensive imagery and extremist rhetoric.
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/exclusive-trump-shared-racist-flat

tulipsandroses
(7,251 posts)He probably already offered him immediate citizenship.
genxlib
(5,899 posts)Making sure he has the best information available.
Bernardo de La Paz
(55,992 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(103,721 posts)Those in the northern hemisphere tend to imagine a disc with the North Star over the centre at the North Pole, because that gives them the point in the sky they can see stars revolving around each night. But that means denying that the southern hemisphere sees what it does - stars going round a completely different point, opposite to the North Pole. Does this guy have to claim that everyone in the northern hemisphere are the liars about what they see? Or does he have some other fantasy?
Still, denying what you see each night would be good practice for believing in a white genocide conspiracy theory.