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A chartered-plane full of uninvited Gazan refugees arrived in South Africa recently. This is an event that really happened.

As far as I can piece together, Israeli authorities allowed 153 Gaza residents to enter Isreal, travel to a nearby airport, board a chartered jetliner and fly to Johannesburg, via Nairobi.

There they sat on the tarmac for 10 hours until local South African authorities could figure out what to do. From BBC News,

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South Africa has maintained strong support for the Palestinian cause throughout the war between Hamas and Israel in Gaza.

And now South Africa gets the opportunity to prove up their support with real action.
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Well, they’re yours now. No takebacks. A local charity agreed to look after them as a condition of disembarking.

The war in Gaza is the first humanitarian crisis that I can recall where not a single country on earth has agreed to accept a single refugee from the area.

Why is that?

The Democrats just gave us a masterclass in how to embarrass yourself on social media. For two days, left-wing influencers and elected Democrats pumped out a claim that President Trump spent Thanksgiving 2017 with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The allegation came from a Nov. 23, 2017, email where Epstein mentioned that "david fizel, hanson, trump" would be at his Thanksgiving gathering. That single email was all the evidence the left needed to run with a story, posting with confidence and conviction that the smoking gun had been found! Trump spent his first Thanksgiving as president with Epstein, and somehow, no one knew about it. It’s absurd on his face, and it took seconds to disprove. Yet, that didn’t stop the Democratic Party from claiming on X that “Documents show Donald Trump spent Thanksgiving with Jeffrey Epstein in 2017. At the time, Trump was already president, and Epstein was already a convicted sex offender.”
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Naturally, X users promptly called them out, pointing out that Trump spent Thanksgiving at Mar-a-Lago, and CNN also reported that Trump visited the nearby Coast Guard Station Lake Worth Inlet that day, where he and First Lady Melania Trump served food to troops. The New York Times covered his video teleconference with military personnel stationed globally. All in all, it was a pretty busy, well-documented day for a sitting president.

Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump spent Thanksgiving together in 2017. While Trump was in office.

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/100220801553

Credulous suckers.

Someone has a laced with acid.

        

And you keep falling for those hoaxes ... of which this thread is about one.

mal lapped it up, unsurprisingly.

A day later in the real world outside of DU-folks' s:

https://x.com/greg_price11/status/1989113709101535660

From NewSpeak in 2017:

How Trump Spent His First Thanksgiving as President

https://www.newsweek.com/how-trump-spent-his-first-thanksgiving-president-721225

Living in a possibly $500,000 house and on welfare.

**** you.

The US House Oversight Committee on Wednesday announced a massive document dump from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate, including thousands of emails discussing a wide range of topics, including women, blackmail, and spending the holidays with Donald Trump.

The 20,000 documents come in the form of poorly organized folders with unhelpful labels, screenshots of emails, and heavily redacted spreadsheets. Some of the files are devoid of context, such as a video in the NATIVES folder of a dog playing with plushies of Trump and Hillary Clinton, while others are broken up in confusing ways, like email chains split into several PDFs.

To make this massive data dump more accessible, COURIER has compiled the 20,000 documents from Epstein’s estate into an easily searchable repository via Google Pinpoint. Use the search tool here.