{"id":33314,"date":"2025-02-14T11:58:18","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T11:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/14\/white-supremacists-in-suits-and-ties-the-rightwing-afrikaner-group-in-trumps-ear\/"},"modified":"2025-02-14T11:58:18","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T11:58:18","slug":"white-supremacists-in-suits-and-ties-the-rightwing-afrikaner-group-in-trumps-ear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/14\/white-supremacists-in-suits-and-ties-the-rightwing-afrikaner-group-in-trumps-ear\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018White supremacists in suits and ties\u2019: the rightwing Afrikaner group in Trump\u2019s ear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump\u2019s asylum offer to South Africa\u2019s white minority follows years of AfriForum lobbying on Elon Musk\u2019s behalf<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s offer of political asylum to South Africa\u2019s white minority, just days after blocking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/21\/donald-trump-inauguration-refugee-ban-afghanistan\">genuine refugees<\/a> from travelling to the US, followed years of campaigning by an Afrikaner group that has promoted \u201cwhite genocide\u201d conspiracy theories while also lobbying on behalf of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/elon-musk\">Elon Musk\u2019s<\/a> business interests.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Trump issued an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/02\/addressing-egregious-actions-of-the-republic-of-south-africa\/\">executive order<\/a> that misrepresented a new South African law, the Expropriation Act, as a racist move to persecute white Afrikaners by seizing their farms without compensation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/14\/trump-musk-south-africa-afriforum\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump\u2019s asylum offer to South Africa\u2019s white minority follows years of AfriForum lobbying on Elon Musk\u2019s behalf Donald Trump\u2019s offer of political asylum to South Africa\u2019s white minority, just days after blocking genuine refugees from travelling to the US, followed years of campaigning by an Afrikaner group that has promoted \u201cwhite genocide\u201d conspiracy theories while &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018White supremacists in suits and ties\u2019: the rightwing Afrikaner group in Trump\u2019s ear\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/14\/white-supremacists-in-suits-and-ties-the-rightwing-afrikaner-group-in-trumps-ear\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018White supremacists in suits and ties\u2019: the rightwing Afrikaner group in Trump\u2019s ear\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}