Newsom Caught Lying about Using Offensive Word to Describe Hispanics

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Newsom Caught Lying about Using Offensive Word to Describe Hispanics

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) California Gov. Gavin Newsom firmly rejected the woke and widely rejected term “Latinx” to describe Latinos, insisting his office had never used it. But there’s one problem: he repeatedly did. 

Newsom made the seemingly hypocritical comments during his viral interview with Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk on March 6, where the two mocked the Democratic Party’s shift toward leftist ideology. 

“You said 2020 is when you started to see the Democrats sort of advance this notion of wokeism,” Newsom told Kirk. 

“It’s when the ‘awokening’ really started. You know what I’m talking about,” Kirk replied. 

“The ‘Latinx’ stuff? By the way, not one person ever in my office has ever used the word ‘Latinx.’ So, I’m like, what the hell?” Newsom exclaimed. 

“So, can we finally put that to bed? Do we agree?” Kirk shot back. 

“Yeah,” Newsom agreed. 

“I don’t even know where it came from. I’m like, what are people talking about?” Newsom recalled, speaking mockingly of his own party. 

Newsom’s remarks were astonishing. Not only has he repeatedly used the term “Latinx” on social media, but his government website has used it dozens of times. 

A Headline USA review of Google search results for the word “Latinx” on Newsom’s website showed multiple instances of its use. 

Newsom proudly used the word on his X page as well. Notably, Newsom attacked the Republican Party in 2023 for opposing both “Latinx” and Critical Race Theory in classrooms. 

In 2020, Newsom described Hispanics as “Latinx” to decry that COVID-19 reportedly impacted them disproportionately. 

Newsom’s government account has also used the word, using it in 2019 to report on child poverty within the Hispanic community. 

In October 2020, Newsom described music pop star Becky G as a “global Latinx superstar and activist,” bragging about a partnership to “urge eligible Gen Zers, Millennials, Gen Xers & the Latinx community to vote in the upcoming election.” 

He used it again in January 2020 to praise a non-profit: “The Latinx powered ‘Gameheads’ team created a video game that brings maternal power in Latinx households to the forefront of video game culture.” 

Newsom’s sudden condemnation of the term comes as he tried to position himself—albeit unsuccessfully—as a moderate Democrat ahead of the 2028 presidential election. 

DOJ Asks Appeals Court to Keep Alleged Would-be Trump Assassin’s Son in Jail

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DOJ Asks Appeals Court to Keep Alleged Would-be Trump Assassin’s Son in Jail

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Justice Department filed a brief with the Fourth Circuit Appeals Court on Monday, asking justices to keep the son of alleged would-be Trump assassin Ryan Routh in jail for possessing child pornography.

The son, Oran Routh, was arrested last September after agents searched his home in connection to his father’s alleged Sept. 15 assassination attempt on Donald Trump at his Florida golf course. Oran pled guilty to one count of possessing child pornography in January.

Up until his guilty plea, Routh had been on house arrest. He’s now in jail, but wants to be released until his official May 14 sentencing on the grounds that he’s in danger from other inmates. After a district judge sent him to jail, Routh filed an appeal last month with the Fourth Circuit.

In his appeal, Oran argued that the notoriety of his father has made him a marked man in prison. Being convicted of possessing child porn hasn’t helped his cause, either, he added.

But on Monday, the DOJ said Oran doesn’t have a valid case to get out of jail.

“Though Routh’s circumstances may be unusual, he has not shown evidence of any specific threats or vulnerabilities during his previous or current detention. Instead, he has pointed only to news articles regarding his and his father’s charges and offered speculation regarding potential harms,” the DOJ’s lawyers argued.

“On this record, the district court did not clearly err in determining Routh’s circumstances do not constitute ‘exceptional reasons’ why his detention is inappropriate, and correctly denied Routh’s motion for release pending sentencing.”

It’s unclear when the Fourth Circuit will rule on the matter. Meanwhile, Oran is still in jail.

Law enforcement started investigating Oran for child pornography in late 2023, when the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, or NCMEC, flagged a video allegedly on his phone. NCMEC passed that tip along to the Guilford County Sheriff’s Office, which visited his mother’s home last February. Law enforcement didn’t follow up until Oran’s father allegedly tried to kill Trump.

The father faces trial for attempted assassination in September.

Ken Silva is the editor of Headline USA. Follow him at x.com/jd_cashless.

Blockbuster Film Has Assassination Scene Similar to Trump Shooting; Director Calls It a Coincidence

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Blockbuster Film Has Assassination Scene Similar to Trump Shooting; Director Calls It a Coincidence

(Maire Clayton, Headline USA) The new film Mickey 17 made critics think twice as the villain played by Mark Ruffalo seemed to resemble President Donald Trump.

Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho previously denied the claim while speaking with Entertainment Weekly.

He said the character was “a mix of many different politicians” and “dictators that we have seen throughout history.”

The Independent’s review of the film was titled “Mickey 17 is an absurdist, anti-capitalist, Trump-mocking masterpiece.”

The pop culture site ScreenRant put out an article comparing all of the similarities between the character and Trump.


The article referenced a scene in the film where an assassination attempt takes place on the villain where he gets grazed by a bullet. However, the film was competed in January 2023, prior to the assassination attempt on Trump in Bulter, Pennsylvania.

The director of the film commented on the similarity, according to Variety.

“We shot this film in London in 2022 and there’s a particular thing that happened in 2024 that was quite similar in this film,” Joon-ho began. “Mark Ruffalo was also quite surprised to see it play out in reality and wondered, ‘Were we oracles predicting the future?’”

The far-left site Salon similarly said the character must have been based off of Trump. “Bong Joon-ho rips into Trump with a rousing, space-set satire,” the article stated.

Joon-ho was also asked by Entertainment Weekly if he had an opinion on Trump previously criticizing his Oscar-winning film Parasite.

“I’m not a petty person. I don’t hold it against him,” the director said. “He can have his own opinion.”

Ruffalo previously alluded to the similarities while he appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

“I play a petty dictator,” he told Fallon. “At the time, we shot it three years ago, and I thought this is over the top. And now, I realize it’s totally underplayed. I mean, I made a documentary.”

Trump Blocks Biden from Classified Intel, Revokes Clearances from ‘Spies Who Lied’

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Trump Blocks Biden from Classified Intel, Revokes Clearances from ‘Spies Who Lied’

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) It appears that President Donald Trump always gets the last laugh these days. 

On Monday, the White House officially banned disgraced former President Joe Biden from receiving the daily presidential briefings—a move that serves as a poetic dose of karma, considering Biden himself barred Trump from these briefings in 2021. 

“The President’s Daily Brief is no longer being provided to former President Biden,” wrote DNI Tulsi Gabbard on X, garnering nearly 3 million views. Gabbard also revealed that several other Biden officials had their security clearances revoked. 

The targeted officials include former Secretary of State Antony Blinken, former National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, former Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, New York Attorney General Letitia James and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

This action means these officials—most of whom have been accused of exploiting their access to the government for financial gain—are officially barred from accessing classified information unless the ban is reversed. 

Other individuals affected by the order were attorneys Mark Zaid, Norman Eisen and Andrew Weissman. Eisen and Weissman both served in the Obama administration and are familiar faces in liberal news outlets CNN and MSNBC. 

Gabbard also announced that clearances were revoked for the “Spies Who Lied”—the 51 individuals who signed an infamous letter dismissing the Hunter Biden laptop as being part of a so-called Russian disinformation campaign.

The letter, which later proved to be disinformation itself, cast doubt on the New York Post’s exposé of the laptop’s content. The laptop confirmed that Biden, then a presidential candidate, actively participated in his son Hunter Biden’s shady foreign business deals. 

Gabbard’s announcement came after Trump signed an executive order on Jan. 20 directing federal agencies to revoke the clearances. “The signatories willfully weaponized the gravitas of the Intelligence Community to manipulate the political process and undermine our democratic institutions,” the order read.

In 2021, shortly after taking office, Biden barred Trump from receiving intelligence briefings, vaguely claiming that Trump could not be trusted because of his “erratic behavior.” 

“I just think that there is no need for him to have the intelligence briefings,” Biden said during an interview on CBS News. “What value is giving him an intelligence briefing? What impact does he have at all, other than the fact he might slip and say something?” 

Fast forward to 2025, and now it is Biden who is barred from such briefings. Talk about turning the tables. 

Whistleblower Exposes Meta for Considering Sharing User Data with China

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Whistleblower Exposes Meta for Considering Sharing User Data with China

(José Niño, Headline USA) Meta, the parent company of Facebook, allegedly made a concerted effort to create a censorship system in order to bring millions of internet users in China into Facebook’s fold. 

According to a new whistleblower complaint from Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former global policy director at the company, Meta was doing everything possible to enter the Chinese market. It was even willing to let the Chinese Communist Party oversee all social media content appearing in the country and clamp down on dissenting opinions. 

Meta created a censorship system for China in 2015 and had plans of installing a “chief editor” who would decide what content to delete and could pull the plug on the whole website during times of “social unrest,” per a copy of the 78-page complaint that The Washington Post obtained. 

On top of that, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg agreed to suppress the account of a prominent Chinese dissident living in the United States after being pressured by a leading Chinese Communist Party official the company hoped would help them gain access to the Chinese market, per the complaint. The complaint was filed in April 2024 to the Securities and Exchange Commission.

When asked about Meta’ attempts to enter the Chinese markets, Meta executives  “stonewalled and provided non-responsive or misleading information” to investors and American regulators on multiple occasions, per the complaint.

To strengthen her case, Wynn-Williams used internal Meta documents about the social media giant’s plans. Wynn-Williams was fired from her job in 2017. She is also slated to publish a memoir later this week highlighting her time at the company, titled “Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism.”

According to a memo featured in the complaint, Meta leaders were urged by CCP officials to host Chinese users’ data to local data centers. Wynn-Williams argues that the use of these centers would have facilitated the Chinese Communist Party’s ability to covertly acquire the personal data of its citizens.

“Once data is stored locally, companies are pressured to comply with Beijing’s demands or risk losing access to Chinese consumers.”

With the United States entering in a heated competition with China over the development of artificial intelligence, concerns remain about Facebook’s previous efforts to align itself with Chinese interests. 

“One of the top priorities for President Trump is the West winning this critical [AI] race and yet for many years Meta has been working hand in glove with the Chinese Communist Party, briefing them on the latest technological developments and lying about it,” said Wynn-Williams, who is currently a technology policy consultant. “People deserve to know the truth.”

Meta has strongly denied the allegations.

“This is a mix of out-of-date and previously reported claims about the company and false accusations about our executives,” the company reportedly said in a statement. “Whistleblower status protects communications to the government, not disgruntled activists trying to sell books.”

José Niño is the deputy editor of Headline USA. Follow him at x.com/JoseAlNino

SPECIAL REPORT: Publishing Whitmer ‘Kidnap Plot’ Informant Steve Robeson’s CHS File

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SPECIAL REPORT: Publishing Whitmer ‘Kidnap Plot’ Informant Steve Robeson’s CHS File

Note to readers: The following special report is reprinted with the permission of journalist Christina Urso, who is making a documentary about how the FBI fomented the 2020 conspiracy to kidnap Michigan’s governor. Find out more information about the documentary here.

(Christina Urso, Radix’s Newsletter) I have decided to officially publish the CHS File of FBI Informant Steve Robeson, with Barry Croft, Jr.’s handwritten notes on it. I obtained this file during the course of my investigation into the Gov. Whitmer “kidnap Plot” case and for my forthcoming documentary film “Kidnap and Kill: an FBI Terror Plot.” Credit to Thomas Leager, one of the Wisconsin targets in the Whitmer case for helping me obtain the Dossier.

To my knowledge, this has never been published nor has it been widely reported on. I have made reference to this in interviews, and now for the first time the public can read the file themselves.

The document outlines Steve Robeson’s activities as an FBI confidential human source (CHS) and some of his involvement in the case. The defense lawyers attempted to call Robeson as a witness, but he invoked the fifth amendment and the AUSA would not immunize him which allowed the government to disown it’s most involved informant.

I wrote about Robeson previously, when he got a sweetheart deal in 2023 AFTER the government lied and burned him as an informant claiming he was a “double agent” for the defense.

A number of things stand out from the file, including the fact that Assistant U.S. Attorney Nils Kessler gave Robeson “OIA” (otherwise illegal activity) to transport explosives to the Luther FTX when the AUSA in the Western District of Wisconsin wouldn’t give him “OIA” to possess firearms.

It should be noted the CHS file is a CYA (cover your ass) document, that doesn’t include the full scope of Robeson’s actions. Mr. Croft says all of CHS Robeson and his texts should have been in the discovery, but they weren’t.

The document admits Robeson was hired as an FBI source in October of 2019. As part of being brought in as an FBI asset, the document says that CHS Robeson was given access to an FBI “database.”. Throughout the FD-1023 forms (FBI documents), Mr. Croft is referred to as the “Baltimore target.”

Special Agent Kristopher Long out of the Baltimore Field Office initiated a full investigation on Barry in May of 2019 for “conspiracy to injure or impede a federal law enforcement officer.” As of the October 2019 hiring of Robeson, Croft had done nothing to warrant being formally charged with a crime. Robeson made contact with Croft online in December of 2019 for the first time. Agent Long was not CHS Robeson’s handling agent, and Robeson was working out of the Milwaukee Field Office.

CHS Robeson was the first person involved in the “Governor Whitmer Kidnapping Case” that Barry met, and he would not meet anyone else charged in the case until a meeting set up by Robeson on June 6, 2020 at the Drury Inn and Suites in Columbus, Ohio. CHS Robeson’s first contact with Barry came via a private message on Facebook. Croft lived in Delaware and did not know Robeson, or anyone who knew him. Robeson (also known as “Robey”) reached out feigning sympathy for a friend of Barry’s who had just passed away.

Barry says he is certain that the “database” CHS Robeson had been given access to by the FBI was what triggered Robeson to make contact with him. Neither this “database,” nor a description of the basis of the “database” was ever provided in discovery or in evidence.

Based on the language in the FD-1023 forms, it’s more likely that this database was of desired targets of the FBI, in which not enough evidence to charge these “targets” existed, so the FBI would direct a “CHS” with access to the “database” to make contact with the target and instigate a crime. This “database” was again referenced in a DOJ document seeking leniency for Robeson in a “felon in possession” case, outlining services he provided the FBI in the Whitmer case, but the DOJ attorneys in the case did not include this “database” or a description of it, despite it setting the whole case in motion.

Robeson’s CHS file also proves that former FBI Director Christopher Wray lied when he testified before Congress and it proves the existence of Americans being targeted over religion, political persuasion, and patriotism.

The CHS file lies about how Robeson became an informant and why. We now know, thanks to the reporting of the Intercept, that Robey was flagged under Operation Bronze Griffin and that is how he became an informant.

The document makes reference to several targets. The “Norfolk target” is a man named Frank Butler who Robeson tried to dupe into doing a plot to fly an explosives laden drone into the North Carolina vacation house of Ralph Northam, the Governor of Virginia at the time of the investigation. The “Baltimore target” is Barry Croft. The “Wisconsin target” is Brian Higgins.

You can read the document in full here:

Supreme Court Will Take Up State Bans on Conversion Therapy for LGBT Children, in a Colorado Case

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Supreme Court Will Take Up State Bans on Conversion Therapy for LGBT Children, in a Colorado Case

(Headline USA) The Supreme Court agreed on Monday in a case from Colorado to decide whether state and local governments can enforce laws banning conversion therapy for LGBT children.

The justices also have heard arguments in a Tennessee case over whether state bans on treating transgender minors violate the Constitution. But they have yet to issue a decision.

Colorado is among roughly half the states that prohibit the practice of trying to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity through counseling.

The issue is whether the law violates the speech rights of counselors. Defenders of such laws argue that they regulate the conduct of professionals who are licensed by the state.
The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver upheld the state law. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta has struck down local bans in Florida.

In 2023, the court had turned away a similar challenge, despite a split among federal appeals courts that had weighed state bans and come to differing decisions.

At the time, three justices, Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh and Clarence Thomas, said they would have taken on the issue. It takes four justices to grant review. The nine-member court does not typically reveal how justices vote at this stage of a case so it’s unclear who might have provided the fourth vote.

The case will be argued in the court’s new term, which begins in October. The appeal on behalf of Kaley Chiles, a counselor in Colorado Springs, was filed by Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative legal organization that has appeared frequently at the court in recent years in cases involving high-profile social issues.

Chiles has had to turn away clients because of the law, ADF lawyer Jim Campbell said Monday on a conference call for reporters, though he declined to say how many.

Chiles said the law, with potential fines of $5,000 and license suspension or even revocation, “interferes with my ability to serve my clients with integrity.”

One of ADF’s earlier cases was a 5-4 decision in 2018 in which the justices ruled that California could not force state-licensed pro-life crisis pregnancy centers to provide information about abortion.

Chiles’s lawyers leaned heavily on that decision in asking the court to take up her case. They wrote that Chiles doesn’t “seek to ‘cure’ clients of same-sex attractions or to ‘change’ clients’ sexual orientation.”

In arguing for the court to reject the appeal, lawyers for Colorado wrote that lawmakers acted to regulate professional conduct, “based on overwhelming evidence that efforts to change a child’s sexual orientation or gender identity are unsafe and ineffective.”

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Virginia Man Suspected of Being about to Conduct Church Mass Shooting Convicted of Hate Crime

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Virginia Man Suspected of Being about to Conduct Church Mass Shooting Convicted of Hate Crime

(Headline USA) A northern Virginia man who was arrested during a megachurch’s Sunday services on suspicion that he was about to embark on a mass shooting has been convicted of a hate crime, according to federal prosecutors.

A federal jury convicted Rui Jiang of Falls Church on Thursday of trying to obstruct congregants’ free exercise of religious beliefs, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia. The charge included that Jiang’s attempt involved a dangerous weapon and an attempt to kill, prosecutors said. He was also convicted of transmitting online threats and a firearms violation.

Prosecutors have said Jiang intended to shoot congregation members of the Park Valley Church in Haymarket in September 2023. He was arrested during Sunday services at the church, armed with a handgun and other weapons, after a former girlfriend called police and alerted them to disturbing social media posts he made.

According to authorities, Jiang had recently joined the church but indicated he was mad at God and at men for blocking him from having romantic relationships with women. He left behind a “final letter” in which he said he intended to only shoot and kill men and apologized in advance for any women who might be “collateral damage.”

In interviews with police after his arrest, Jiang acknowledged he was mad at God but denied planning to kill anyone, according to court documents. He admitted he was armed inside the church but said he has a concealed carry permit and is frequently armed.

He was initially charged in state court, but federal prosecutors took over the case last year. The case was put on hold after a competency hearing was ordered, but the judge ruled in July that Jiang could stand trial.

Police touted Jiang’s arrest as an example of fast-moving interagency cooperation between at least three police departments in Maryland and Virginia to apprehend Jiang before any violence occurred. Security personnel at the church had also noticed Jiang’s odd behavior and had begun to question him.

Jiang faces a mandatory minimum of five years and up to life in prison at sentencing June 18. Actual sentences for federal crimes are typically less than the maximum penalties.
The federal public defender’s office, which is representing Jiang, declined comment Friday.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Epstein Cronies Seek to Quash Subpoenas in Lawsuit Accusing Him of being Mossad Agent

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Epstein Cronies Seek to Quash Subpoenas in Lawsuit Accusing Him of being Mossad Agent

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) As the Justice Department continues to sit on the “Jeffrey Epstein files,” the two co-executors of his estate, Richard Kahn and Darren Indyke, are also seeking to quash subpoenas that would have them testify in an anonymous victim’s lawsuit.

Kahn and Indyke’s motion to quash was filed in response to an ongoing lawsuit from “Jane Doe 200,” whom Epstein allegedly raped in 2001. Jane Doe 200 has said that she didn’t report Epstein’s crime at the time because she was told that Epstein worked for the Mossad, which is Israel’s intelligence service.

“Doe genuinely believed that any reporting of the rape by what she believed to be a Mossad agent with some of the most unique connections in the world, would result in significant bodily harm or death to her,” stated her lawsuit, filed last June.

As part of her lawsuit, Jane Doe 200 seeks to depose Kahn and Indyke about Epstein’s connections to the Mossad, as well as other intelligence agencies, including the CIA and FBI. However, Kahn and Indyke say they know nothing of those matters, and that they should have to testify about them.

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“Mr. Kahn did not even begin working for Epstein until 2005, four years after the alleged rape. And while Mr. Indyke worked as an outside lawyer for Epstein in 2001, Plaintiff offers no basis whatsoever to suggest that he has personal knowledge relevant to her claims—and he does not,” they said in a Feb. 28 filing. “In these circumstances, a deposition of the Co-Executors in their personal capacity is unwarranted.”

Kahn and Indyke also said they’ve searched through Epstein’s estate, and haven’t found any documents linking him to the Mossad or other intelligence agencies.

“Defendants’ review uncovered no materials responsive to her request for documents concerning links between Jeffrey Epstein and the FBI, CIA, Mossad, or KGB,” they said last month.

Jane Doe 200’s attorneys responded to Kahn and Indyke on Friday, arguing to keep the subpoenas intact. According to her attorneys, no one knows more about Epstein’s criminal enterprise than his estate’s executors.

“As an initial matter, Darren Indyke personally met with Jane Doe 200 himself, and communicated with Epstein about Jane Doe 200. In addition to Indyke’s personal interactions with Jane Doe 200, Indyke and Kahn are the two individuals who have the most knowledge as to Jeffrey Epstein’s other acts of sexual assault—admissible evidence under Federal Rule of Evidence 415,” the lawyers said.

“Moreover, to the extent that Indyke and Kahn have a financial stake in the outcome of this litigation as beneficiaries, such bias is discoverable as their conduct related to this action could be influenced by ulterior motives.”

The parties are set to argue over the matter at a conference on March 26.

Epstein and his longtime girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell were accused of flying underage girls by private jet to his private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands for sexual exploitation. There, it’s widely thought that they used the underage girls to entice and blackmail a variety of politicians, businessmen, and other powerbrokers.

Epstein faced criminal charges in Florida in 2006 but was able to receive a more lenient plea deal that saved him from a long prison sentence. He was sentenced to 18 months but served more than a year in a Florida state prison.

In 2019, Epstein died while awaiting trial in New York after prosecutors concluded they were not bound to the terms of Epstein’s 2006 deal.

Authorities said he committed suicide by hanging himself in his jail cell, but that ruling has been widely scrutinized because of the circumstances related to his death and the potential number of high-profile co-conspirators he could have implicated.

Ken Silva is the editor of Headline USA. Follow him at x.com/jd_cashless.

Donald Trump Offers Expedited Citizenship to South African Farmers

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Donald Trump Offers Expedited Citizenship to South African Farmers

(José Niño, Headline USA) President Donald Trump is not happy with South Africa. He recently halted all federal funding for the African country, and called on its white farmers to obtain citizenship in the United States in a post on his Truth Social platform last Friday.

“South Africa is being terrible, plus, to long time Farmers in the country. They are confiscating their LAND and FARMS, and MUCH WORSE THAN THAT,” Trump wrote in his post on Truth Social.

“A bad place to be right now, and we are stopping all Federal Funding. To go a step further, any Farmer (with family!) from South Africa, seeking to flee that country for reasons of safety, will be invited into the United States of America with a rapid pathway to Citizenship. This process will begin immediately!”

Trump’s comments came at a time when the Trump administration has been butting heads over South Africa’s Expropriation Act. This law was signed in January by President Cyril Ramaphosa of the ruling African National Congress party.

The legislation ostensibly aimed to close land ownership disparities brought about by the country’s previous apartheid regime (1948-1994) past by allowing the government to carry out land expropriation in the public interest.

Although the law allows expropriation without compensation in certain cases, the South African government claims that private property rights would still be respected. 

Trump’s stance reflects concerns brought forth by several right-wing organizations in the United States and South Africa’s white minority, above all Boer farmers, who contend that the law unjustly targets them. Additionally, they have cited cases of violence launched against farmers in South Africa. 

Trump’s vow to slash all federal funding to South Africa builds upon an executive order he signed in February halting assistance to the country as a response to the passage of the Expropriation Act. He perceives this law as a violation of the property rights of South Africa’s white community, the Boers.

“The law is designed to correct historical injustices and ensure that land reform is conducted in an orderly and legally sound manner,” a spokesperson for the ANC government countered in January.

The Democratic Alliance, an opposition party in South Africa, said the following about the law last month: “We reject this Act because we believe that no government in a democratic country should be given such sweeping powers to expropriate property without compensation.”

 A delegation of leaders from AfriForum — a civil rights organization that defends the interests of white Afrikanners — and its partner organizations visited the White House officials after Trump issued the order.

AfriForum CEO Kallie Kriel, who was a member of the delegation to the White House, asserted at the time: “It’s President Ramaphosa that signed the Expropriation Act. It’s President Ramaphosa that refuses to condemn slogans such as kill the Boer. It’s President Ramaphosa that denies the existence of farmer murders.”

Trump’s latest proposal to grant expedited citizenship to South African farmers would require executive action or legislative action — both chambers of Congress passing a bill addressing this matter. 

Trump’s executive order also cited the African nation’s “aggressive” positions against the United States by accusing Israel of committing a genocide in Gaza and also by “reinvigorating its [South Africa’s] relationship with Iran.” 

José Niño is the deputy editor of Headline USA. Follow him at x.com/JoseAlNino

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