.WHEN DONALD TRUMP said the word “Springfield” 33 mins into the United States presidential dispute on September 10th, David Muir, the co-moderator, was actually prepared. In that small Ohio town, Mr Trump announced, illegal immigrants are actually “eating the pets, they’re consuming the felines, they’re eating the animals of the people that reside there”. Mr Muir promptly answered that, according to Springfield’s mayor, there were actually no reputable documents of pet-eating.
The past president’s claim must have attacked a lot of visitors as bizarre. Yet bunches of Mr Trump’s enthusiasts were actually topped for it: the allegation had been actually moving around in right-wing groups on social networks, improved by Elon Odor, the owner of X. How did the city become at the centre of a right-wing conspiracy theory?