‘A Boss Move’: Scott Jennings Says Trump Confronting South African President Over White Farmers ‘Had To Happen’

Republican strategist Scott Jennings said Wednesday that President Donald Trump had to confront South African president Cyril Ramaphosa over the persecution of white farmers.

Trump ordered staffers to dim the lights as he played a video of Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema leading a crowd in singing a song titled, “Kill the Boer.” Jennings told “The Arena” guest host Pamela Brown Trump’s decision to play the video was “a boss move.” (RELATED: Hillary’s Very Special Boy Thought He Had Marco Rubio On The Ropes. He Didn’t)

“Well, look, whether you call it a genocide or not, the facts are white farmers in South Africa have been murdered,” Jennings said. “A lot of people have tried to cover this up. A lot of people in, I think, media in the United States have tried to cover it up. Obviously, the South African government doesn’t want to talk about it, so it was kind of a boss move for Donald Trump to role that television in there today. And I think even the agriculture minister in the Oval Office confirmed that these people are, in fact, being murdered.”

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“So my question is, if it’s not a genocide today, how many do we want to let get murdered so that people around here can be satisfied, okay, now it’s a genocide, let’s let a few more, I don’t understand,” Jennings continued. “We‘re talking about 50-something people they were trying to let in, and everybody is losing their mind after we let in 20 million illegal immigrants over the last several years.”

The Episcopal Church announced it would end its cooperation with the United States government in resettling migrants after the Trump administration announced the arrival of the first group of Afrikaner farmers.

“The president is trying to prevent genocide from happening any further to these people” Jennings said. “They are clearly being discriminated against. Some have been murdered. This was an interesting spectacle in the Oval Office today, but it had to happen because I don’t think anybody was telling the truth about it.”

Earlier Wednesday, CNN cut away from the bilateral meeting between Trump and Ramaphosa when the video was played.

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