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Rubio says South African ambassador to U.S. 'no longer welcome'

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    10% Center

  • Reliability

    50% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -25% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : Rasool made particular mention of Vice President JD Vance's support for Germany's right-wing Alternative for Germany political party, and the prominence within the Trump administration of Elon Musk, a White South African who has also supported conservative political movements in other countries.
39% : " The immediate cause of Rubio's ire appeared to be a speech Rasool delivered virtually to a Johannesburg think tank Friday in which he said Trump was "mobilizing" White supremacy in the United States and "abroad as well," according to an article in Breitbart News cited by Rubio's post.
29% : The move against the ambassador follows a series of Trump criticisms against the South African government, including an executive order last month denouncing new legislation that established a program for expropriation of unused agricultural land that White owners refused to sell to Black purchasers.
28% : Trump ordered cancellation of all U.S. assistance programs to South Africa and offered U.S. admission and resettlement "for Afrikaners in South Africa who are victims of unjust racial discrimination.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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