Karoline Leavitt Gets Into Testy Exchange With Reporter Who Said Video Of South Africans’ Graves Was Fake

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt sparred with a reporter Thursday as she attempted to dispute a video played by President Donald Trump that showed the graves of South African farmers.

Trump played a video montage Thursday of the opposition party in South Africa calling to kill the Boers, a term referring to white farmers, and a camera shot of a site where dead white farmers are said to be buried. The reporter claimed that the graves are not of white South Africans who were murdered, leading Leavitt to state that her “line of questioning” was “ridiculous.”

“The video showed images of crosses in South Africa about white farmers who have been killed and politically persecuted because of the color of their skin. And those crosses are representing their lives and the fact that they are now dead and their government did nothing about it. Are you disputing that?” Leavitt said.

“I’m disputing the fact that the video showed what the president claimed it showed, because it did not show that. But even more, who at the White House is verifying the videos that the president shows and what protocols are in place when there’s unsubstantiated information being put out for the world and world leaders to show?” the reporter asked.

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The press secretary disputed that the video was “unsubstantiated,” and cited The Associated Press’ (AP) own images of The White Cross Monument in Polokwane, South Africa. The hillside has arrays of several white crosses to mark “a white farmer who has been killed in a farm murder,” according to the AP’s caption displayed under an image of the memorial site.