{"id":196642,"date":"2025-04-23T23:41:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T21:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-no-evidence-kenyan-politician-fred-matiangi-was-deported-from-the-us-viral-graphic-fabricated\/"},"modified":"2025-04-23T23:41:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T21:41:38","slug":"kenya-no-evidence-kenyan-politician-fred-matiangi-was-deported-from-the-us-viral-graphic-fabricated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-no-evidence-kenyan-politician-fred-matiangi-was-deported-from-the-us-viral-graphic-fabricated\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: No Evidence Kenyan Politician Fred Matiang&#8217;i Was Deported From the US &#8211; Viral Graphic Fabricated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\"><em>No evidence Kenyan politician Fred Matiang&#8217;i was deported from the US &#8211; viral graphic fabricated<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\"><strong>IN SHORT: <\/strong>Kenya&#8217;s former cabinet secretary for interior Fred Matiang&#8217;i has jetted back into the country amid reports he is preparing to run for president in 2027. We found no evidence that he was deported from the US, as claimed in this viral graphic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Kenyan politician Fred Matiang&#8217;i has been deported from the United States as president Donald Trump intensifies crackdown on illegal migrants. This is <a...<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504230449.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No evidence Kenyan politician Fred Matiang&#8217;i was deported from the US &#8211; viral graphic fabricated IN SHORT: Kenya&#8217;s former cabinet secretary for interior Fred Matiang&#8217;i has jetted back into the country amid reports he is preparing to run for president in 2027. We found no evidence that he was deported from the US, as claimed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":196643,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,7249,7013,13093,45781,28476,4688,430,4524,11798,257,8314,254,13080],"class_list":["post-196642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-deported","tag-evidence","tag-fabricated","tag-fred","tag-graphic","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyan","tag-matiangi","tag-news","tag-politician","tag-south-africa-today","tag-viral"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}