NBC’s Yamiche Alcindor blasted for challenging Karoline Leavitt on 'White genocide' claims in South Africa

WASHINGTON, DC: NBC’s Yamiche Alcindor came in hot during a recent White House press briefing — but left scorched by press secretary Karoline Leavitt.

Leavitt absolutely torched the reporter after she tried to undercut the Trump administration’s claims about the murder of White South African farmers, Fox News reported.

It all started when President Donald Trump showed South African President Cyril Ramaphosa a video during their Oval Office meeting on Wednesday, May 21. The clip showed stark white crosses that Trump said marked “approximately 1,000 burial sites of White Afrikaner South African farmers.”

Trump insisted the farmers were being killed and driven off their land, and told Ramaphosa that the sites were places where family members come to “pay respects to their family member who was killed.”

But Ramaphosa looked baffled. “Have they told you where that is, Mr President?" he asked, before saying, "I’d like to know where that is. Because this, I’ve never seen."

Trump responded, “I mean, it’s in South Africa, that’s where," to which Ramaphosa said, “We need to find out.”

Yamiche Alcindor gets steamrolled as she picks a fight with the White House

The very next day, Yamiche Alcindor went on the offensive and questioned whether the video was even legit. She pointed to reports suggesting the crosses weren’t actual burial markers, but part of a protest memorial after a farming couple was killed in 2020.

"We know that that was not true and that the video wasn’t true,” Alcindor declared, before asking, “What protocols are in place when there’s unsubstantiated information being put out for the world and world leaders?”

Leavitt wasn’t having it. She shut down Alcindor’s line of questioning with a sharp rebuttal.

"What's unsubstantiated about the video?" Leavitt said. "The video shows crosses that represent the dead bodies of people who were racially persecuted by their government. In fact, The Associated Press, of all places, has a picture of that very monument in the caption from The Associated Press is ‘Each cross marks a white farmer who has been killed in a farm murder.’"

"So it is substantiated. But it's not just by that video and the physical evidence that everybody saw on display in the Oval Office, but also by another outlet in this from The Associated Press," Leavitt added. "So you should take it up with them if you believe the claim is unsubstantiated. And that's a ridiculous line of questioning." 

Still, the AP has noted that the crosses in the video were part of a 2020 demonstration held after the tragic murder of a White farming couple, not actual burial sites.

Yamiche Alcindor gets dragged on social media for questioning 'White genocide' claim

Yamiche Alcindor caught serious heat for her line of questioning online, with critics absolutely unloading on her.

"Yamiche Alcindor is denying the targeted loss of life going on in South Africa. She needs to be fired," one posted on X (formerly Twitter).

"Seriously, @Yamiche is worried about 'protocols when there's unsubstantiated information being put out'? Where the hell has she been the lady 4 yrs of the constant lying and gaslighting that came out of the White House and KJP's mouth? Such an embarrassment, @Yamiche continues to be," another fumed.

"Yamiche Alcindor has not a shred of shame naor human decency to ask such a ridiculous question. Thank God we have a press secretary that doesn't suffer fools well," a person wrote.

"She will race bait for black people but then deny white genocide. These people are pathetic racists," someone else added.

"@Yamiche Imagine hating white people so badly that you try to deny the murder of over a thousand of them," another tweet read. 

"Leavitt should put Alcindor in the back row and never call on her again," an individual insisted.

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