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Trump confronts South African president about widespread killing of White farmers in the country

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Trump highlights ‘genocide’ of white farmers to South African president during White House meeting, telling him, ‘White South Africans are fleeing because of the violence and racist laws.’

President Donald Trump confronted the South African president with video evidence of persecution and murder against White farmers during a White House press meeting.

During a televised meeting between South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and Trump on May 21, the U.S. president addressed the persecution of White farmers in South Africa.

“We have many people that feel they are being persecuted, and they are coming to the United States. We take from many locations if we feel there is persecution or genocide going on,” Trump said.

Addressing Ramaphosa directly, he added: “Generally, they are White farmers and they are fleeing South Africa, and it’s very sad to see, but I hope we can have an explanation of that because I know you don’t want that.”

Trump then showed Ramaphosa and all the present members of the press a video compilation that included speeches by Julius Malema, the leader of South Africa’s communist Economic Freedom Fighters party, openly calling for the killing of White people in South Africa.

Malema is seen galvanizing his supporters at a party event, singing a song that calls for the killing of the White farmers. “Kill the Boer, the farmer!” he shouts into the microphone. Boers are the descendants of Dutch-speaking settlers in Southern Africa.

The video also included a roadside memorial with thousands of white crosses, representing the graves of those killed in attacks on farms.

“These are burial sites. Right here. Burial sites, over a thousand of white farmers and those cars are lined up to pay love on a Sunday morning,” Trump said.

The U.S. president continued to shine a light on the violence against White farmers in front of Ramaphosa, holding up a stack of articles that reported on individual attacks on farms.

“A correct and a fair media exposes things. But we have a very corrupt media,” Trump stressed. “They won’t even report this. If this were the other way around, it would be the biggest story.”

“All we know is we are being inundated with people, White farmers from South Africa. It’s a big problem,” he added.

Ramaphosa responded that the speeches seen in the video “are not government policy.”

“Our government policy is completely against what he was saying,” he stated, adding that “they are a small minority party which is allowed to exist in terms of our constitution.”

He also insisted that criminal activity in the country is not only directed against White people.

Trump criticized the South African government for passing laws that allow it to expropriate land without payment.

“They’re taking people’s land away, and in many cases, those people are being executed, and in many cases, it’s not the government that’s killing them. It’s people that kill them and then take their land, and nothing happens to them.”

Both Ramaphosa and his white agriculture minister insisted that they vehemently oppose the murderous rhetoric in the videos. However, Ramaphosa has been a leader in the cause of expropriating land and “redistributing” it without compensation to its previous owners. In a speech given in December 2017 to the African National Congress, Ramaphosa said: “The land of our forefathers and our foremothers must return to our people without any fail and without any payment of compensation.”

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FBI Director: CCP Behind Wave of Pathogen Smuggling as Third Chinese Student Charged in Michigan Lab Probe

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“In a follow up interview with FBI and ICE HSI agents, Han admitted to sending the packages and lying about their contents”

In an intensifying pattern of national security investigations targeting unauthorized biological shipments from China into Detroit, U.S. authorities on Monday confirmed the arrest of a third Chinese national allegedly involved in smuggling undeclared bio-materials into the United States—this time for use at a University of Michigan laboratory.

“This case is part of a broader effort from the FBI and our federal partners to heavily crack down on similar pathogen smuggling operations, as the Chinese Communist Party works relentlessly to undermine America’s research institutions,” FBI Director Kash Patel posted to X on Monday evening.

The latest defendant, Chengxuan Han, is a citizen of the People’s Republic of China and a doctoral student at the College of Life Science and Technology in Wuhan. She has been charged with smuggling goods into the U.S. and making false statements, according to a federal criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Detroit.

From September 2024 through March 2025, prosecutors allege, Han sent four international shipments containing concealed biological materials to individuals affiliated with a University of Michigan lab. The contents were identified as Caenorhabditis elegans — roundworms commonly used in genetic and biomedical research. The packages were mis-manifested and not declared in accordance with U.S. import regulations.

On June 8, Han arrived at Detroit Metropolitan Airport on a J-1 visa and was stopped by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers. She allegedly denied having sent any biological materials to the U.S. and made false statements about the nature of the shipments. Agents also discovered that content on her electronic device had been deleted three days before her arrival — a detail included in the federal complaint.

“In a follow up interview with FBI and ICE HSI agents, Han admitted to sending the packages and lying about their contents,” Patel commented.

“The alleged smuggling of biological materials by this alien from a science and technology university in Wuhan, China — to be used at a University of Michigan laboratory — is part of an alarming pattern that threatens our security,” said U.S. Attorney Jerome F. Gorgon, Jr. “The American taxpayer should not be underwriting a PRC-based smuggling operation at one of our crucial public institutions.”

The case marks the third time in one week that Chinese nationals connected to the University of Michigan have been charged with allegedly smuggling undeclared biological material from China into the U.S. for laboratory research.

On June 3, federal prosecutors charged Yunqing Jian, 33, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan, and her boyfriend, Zunyong Liu, 34, with conspiracy, smuggling goods into the U.S., false statements, and visa fraud. Jian and Liu are accused of importing Fusarium graminearum — a fungus considered in some scientific literature to be a potential agroterrorism threat — into the country without proper declaration.

Officials allege Liu, who conducts research on the same pathogen at a university in China, initially lied to investigators but later admitted to smuggling the fungus for research in Jian’s Michigan lab.

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RFK Jr. purges CDC vaccine panel, citing decades of ‘skewed science’

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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has dismissed every member of the CDC’s top vaccine advisory panel, citing what he described as a “decades” of “conflicts of interest” and “skewed science” in the vaccine regulatory system.

RFK Jr.’s abrupt decision to “retire” all 17 members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) was announced in a Wall Street Journal op-ed Monday and confirmed by HHS shortly thereafter.

The move marks the most sweeping reform to federal vaccine policy in years and follows months of internal reviews and mounting public skepticism.

Kennedy accused the ACIP of being “little more than a rubber stamp for any vaccine,” claiming “it has never recommended against a vaccine.”

“The public must know that unbiased science guides the recommendations from our health agencies,” Kennedy wrote. “This will ensure the American people receive the safest vaccines possible.”

ACIP holds the power to influence which vaccines are recommended by the CDC and covered by insurers. But according to Kennedy, it has failed in its duty to protect the public.

He cited multiple government investigations—dating back to 2000 and 2009—finding that ACIP members were routinely advising on products from pharmaceutical firms with which they had financial ties. Committee members were also issued conflict-of-interest waivers from the CDC.

Kennedy pointed to the 1997 vote approving the Rotashield vaccine – later withdrawn for causing severe bowel obstructions in infants – as a case study in regulatory failure. Four of the eight members who voted for it had financial stakes in rotavirus vaccines under development.

He explained “retiring” the 17 members, “some of whom were last-minute appointees of the Biden administration,” by saying that without such a move, “the Trump administration would not have been able to appoint a majority” until 2028.

Under Kennedy’s leadership, HHS has already halted recommendations for routine COVID-19 shots for healthy children and pregnant women and cancelled COVID-era programs to fast-track new vaccines.

It remains unclear who will replace the outgoing ACIP members, though HHS confirmed the committee will still meet later this month, now under new leadership.

“The new members won’t directly work for the vaccine industry,” he promised. “They will exercise independent judgment, refuse to serve as a rubber stamp, and foster a culture of critical inquiry—unafraid to ask hard questions.”

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