.WHEN DONALD TRUMP said words “Springfield” 33 minutes right into the American presidential debate on September 10th, David Muir, the co-moderator, was actually prepped. During that tiny Ohio community, Mr Trump proclaimed, illegal immigrants are actually “consuming the canines, they are actually eating the pussy-cats, they are actually eating the animals of the people who reside there”. Mr Muir promptly replied that, depending on to Springfield’s mayor, there were no trustworthy reports of pet-eating.
The former president’s insurance claim have to have hit several customers as unusual. However bunches of Mr Trump’s fans were primed for it: the allegation had been circulating in conservative groups on social media sites, increased by Elon Odor, the manager of X. How performed the city become at the facility of a conservative conspiracy theory?