'Absolutely furious' ex-ambassador drops the hammer on Trump over Afrikaner immigrants
During an appearance on MSNBC on Sunday morning, the former ambassador to South Africa blistered Donald Trump for speeding up the immigration status of Afrikaners by claiming they are fleeing "genocide" in their home country.
In short, Ambassador Patrick Gaspard bluntly stated the president is a liar.
Speaking with "The Weekend" host Elise Jordan, the former diplomat began by stating for the record, "You know, I'll say a couple of things. First, you know, when I come on shows like this, I'm trained to kind of retain my anger. It's hard to do that on this. On this issue, I'm absolutely furious."
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"One, Trump is playing to a domestic U.S. fringe political audience which I'll talk about in a second,' he explained. "There's a geopolitical impact, because there's an attempt to punish South Africa for the posture that it's taken internationally on the war in Gaza and its claims against Israel."
"And Trump is very clear about the need to punish South Africa in that regard," he added before continuing, "But there's a third thing that's happening. Donald Trump is the master of distraction and he knows that while we're having this conversation we're not talking about the prices that are going up for average Americans in Walmart and he loves that."
Addressing Trump's claim about the mass seizure of land aimed solely at the Afrikaners, he later stated, "It's just not happening. It is a fiction from Donald Trump, from Elon Musk and so many of their friends in the fringe, right, like Tucker Carlson."
"So now you have a president who is overturning the long-term asylum procedures that we have here in the U.S. for people who are fleeing violence, real political violence from countries like Afghanistan," he elaborated. "But he's throwing it open to a group of people who are political pawns right now; Afrikaners from South Africa who may or may not feel physically threatened in some way."
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