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MAGA world is praising President Donald Trump after his Oval Office showdown with South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa Wednesday, saying he held his guest “accountable” for the alleged “white genocide” happening in the country.

“TRUMP HOLDS SOUTH AFRICA PRESIDENT ACCOUNTABLE!” Founder and President of the conservative Turning Point USA Charlie Kirk wrote on Truth Social. “President Trump says to ‘turn down the lights’ and then proceeds to show South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa, videos of South African political leaders calling for the death of white South Afrikaners.

President Donald Trump snapped at a reporter who asked him about a luxury jet offered to him as a gift by Qatar's royal family.

The U.S. president was holding a joint press conference Wednesday afternoon in the Oval Office with his South African counterpart, Cyril Ramaphosa, when NBC News correspondent Peter Alexander asked about the $400 million Boeing 747-8 the Pentagon was accepting from the foreign government.

CNN host Dana Bash and fact-checker Daniel Dale pounced on Donald Trump Wednesday afternoon after the U.S. president "ambushed" South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office with patently false claims of murders of white farmers in his country.

After Trump showed a highly manipulative video disparaging South Africa, he followed up by making sweeping assertions and arguing with the African leader, which seemed to have stunned CNN's Bash.

Cutting away, Bash told her audience, "Okay we're going to continue to monitor what has been a truly extraordinary what? Half an hour plus inside the Oval Office. I just, I want to go back to Daniel Dale because there's a lot of fact-checking to do."

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Dale jumped in, explaining, "The last nine months of 2024 in South Africa: 19,696 murders. How many of them occurred on farms? 36."

"36 about 0.2 percent," he re-emphasized. "That includes employees like security staff, farm workers. How many of them were actual farmers? Seven out of more than 19,000 and it's not even clear that those are all white farmers. Contrary to what the president said, many farmers in South Africa are Black."

"Even the white ones who have been victims of crime, it's not clear, have been targeted for racial reasons," he elaborated. "Experts and white farmers themselves in South Africa have repeatedly told media outlets and think tanks that they feel they are often targeted for robbery and even attacks because they are geographically isolated and therefore vulnerable."

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CNN's Dana Bash described president Donald Trump's meeting with his South African counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa as an "ambush."

The two world leaders met Wednesday afternoon in the Oval Office, where White House aides showed a video of speeches made by the Economic Freedom Fighters party calling for violence against white farmers – which Ramaphosa insisted was "not government policy" and represented the views of "a small minority party."

Social media users are reacting to several major moments during President Donald Trump’s meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa -- most notably his accusations of 'white genocide' in the country.

“With the South African president sitting next to him, Trump suggests there is a white genocide happening in his country and says, 'I hope you can have an explanation of that,'" journalist Aaron Rupar said on X.

President Donald Trump lashed out at a reporter from NBC after he asked about a free jet that Qatar was providing while the commander-in-chief was trying to make the case that white genocide was taking place in South Africa.

During a Wednesday Oval Office meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Trump asked for the lights to be lowered so he could play a video of Black South Africans threatening white farmers.

A decision by interim New Jersey U.S. Attorney Alina Habba to announce her decision to charge Rep. LaMonica Mclver (D-N.J.) with felony assault on X may have put the case on the fast-track to nowhere according to two MSNBC legal analysts.

Habba was handed the position by Donald Trump after he appointed his first choice, John Giordano, to be ambassador to Namibia, after previously having served as his lead defense attorney when he was sued by writer E. Jean Carroll for defamation which ultimately led to her client being slapped with an $83.3 million judgment.

When announcing, she has "charged Congresswoman McIver with violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 111(a)(1) for assaulting, impeding and interfering with law enforcement," Habba attached a statement claiming, "I have persistently made efforts to address these issues without bringing criminal charges and have given Representative McIver every opportunity to come to a resolution, but she has unfortunately declined."

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According to MSNBC analysts Lisa Rubin and Kristy Greenberg, everything about her presentation of the case is problematic.

With Rubin pointing there has yet to be a grand jury indictment, Greenberg added, "They would need to show there is physical contact, but that there was an intentional physical assault. And here, if you even looked back at that video, it's not clear that there's any intention behind the physical contact –– it looked like at least there was a lot of jostling."

"As you said, agents were putting hands on her and she was kind of pushing them away," she told host Ana Cabrera.

Rubin jumped in to say Habba has already put her case on shaky ground.

"The thing here, Ana, that's so unusual, is that I can't recall another instance in which you see a U.S. attorney going out publicly as charges are filed and before they're even in the defendant's own hands, which is something we know from her legal team and saying, we tried to negotiate a solution here and that wasn't forthcoming," Rubin explained.

"You have an obligation as a U.S. attorney not to engage in conduct in terms of your public statements that could prejudice a jury pool against a defendant by saying that she offered her an opportunity to come to a resolution," she elaborated. "That could be prejudicial contact, conduct, I'm sorry, in and of itself: really unfortunate and also highly unusual, as Kristy knows."

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New evidence has emerged that suggests president Donald Trump's intelligence agencies have been politicized – and insiders want the public to know.

The New York Times obtained emails showing that a top aide to Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, directing analysts to revise an assessment to justify the president's apparently inaccurate claim that Venezuela's government controls a criminal gang, and MSNBC's Steve Benen said the episode is illustrative for several reasons.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio refused to say that Russian President Vladimir Putin was a "war criminal," even though he admitted war crimes had been committed during the invasion of Ukraine.

At a Wednesday House hearing, Rep. Bill Keating (D-MA) pressed Rubio for answers about Putin's role in war crimes against Ukraine.

Fifth Circuit Judge James Ho slammed the Supreme Court and apologized after their ruling added an undocumented migrant case back to his docket “seemingly overnight,” according to a Rolling Stone report.

“We seem to have forgotten that this is a district court — not a Denny’s,” Ho wrote, referring to the 24/7 restaurant chain. “This is the first time I’ve ever heard anyone suggest that district judges have a duty to check their dockets at all hours of the night, just in case a party decides to file a motion.”