Is there a genocide of white South Africans as Trump claims?

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  There's an empty chair for Donald Trump at the G20 summit in Johannesburg this weekend.

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  That's because for the first time in its history,

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  the United States is essentially boycotting the big annual meeting of the world's largest economies.

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  In recent months, the American government has had a dramatic falling out with South Africa,

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  driven by President Trump's belief that white farmers in South Africa are being persecuted.

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  But it's a genocide that's taking place that you people don't want to write about.

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  Farmers are being killed.

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  They happen to be white.

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  But whether they're white or black makes no difference to me."

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  South Africa's government says the claims of a white genocide are widely discredited.

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  But still,

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  Trump has embraced the allegations and begun opening the United States up as a safe haven for white offer-conners that his administration now classifies as refugees.

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