.WHEN DONALD TRUMP said the word “Springfield” 33 moments in to the American presidential debate on September 10th, David Muir, the co-moderator, was actually prepped. Because small Ohio community, Mr Trump stated, illegal aliens are actually “eating the canines, they’re eating the pet cats, they’re consuming the family pets of the people that live there”. Mr Muir promptly answered that, according to Springfield’s mayor, there were actually no qualified documents of pet-eating.
The past president’s case should possess hit several viewers as bizarre. However considerable amounts of Mr Trump’s followers were keyed for it: the allegation had been actually circulating in right-wing groups on social media, boosted by Elon Musk, the proprietor of X. Just how carried out the city come to be at the center of a right-wing conspiracy concept?