[ Bradley Devlin is politics editor for The Daily Signal.]

When President Donald Trump interrupted his Oval Office meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to play a video evidencing widespread persecution against white South Africans in May, the left-wing media called it an “ambush.”

Which only leaves one to wonder what the media would call what happened to the Heunis family the night of Oct. 1, 2016. Two intruders, one armed with a shotgun, raided the home of Johann and Mariandra Heunis, then pregnant with their fourth child. The intruders, Mariandra later told Fox News, demanded money, but when the couple said they did not keep cash in the house, one intruder “just started shooting.” Johann was shot five times.

“They stormed at me and grabbed me up from the couch, demanding that I go with them downstairs,” Heunis recalled. “My little girl then put her hand up and offered them her piggy bank,” and “at that moment, my husband got up for the last time. He pleaded. I pleaded. They shot him execution style in the head.” The intruders threatened the lives of Mariandra and their children before fleeing the scene with only the couple’s cellphones. Mariandra would give birth five days after Johann’s funeral.

What happened to the Heunis family is not an isolated incident. At least 3,000 white South African farmers have been killed since 1994. Over the last decade, the violence has intensified as the South African government has pushed broader expropriation and land reform efforts and radical black Marxist political forces have gained momentum. In January, Ramaphosa signed a new Expropriation Act that strengthened provisions authorizing land seizures without compensation.

Quite a far cry from President Abraham Lincoln doing some math on the back of an envelope to see if the federal government could buy every remaining slave in the state of Delaware during the Civil War, but I digress.

Nevertheless, the leftwing media zealously defends the policies of Ramaphosa and the African National Congress. From one side of its mouth, it says the data in South Africa is inadequate to come to any hard conclusions, on the other side, it definitively says the Trump administration’s claims are false.

But it’s not just the