.WHEN DONALD TRUMP said the word "Springfield" thirty three moments in to the American governmental controversy on September 10th, David Muir, the co-moderator, was prepared. In that tiny Ohio community, Mr Trump stated, illegal aliens are actually "eating the dogs, they're consuming the cats, they are actually consuming the dogs of the people that reside there". Mr Muir quickly answered that, depending on to Springfield's city manager, there were no reliable documents of pet-eating. The previous head of state's case have to possess hit many audiences as strange. However bunches of Mr Trump's fans were topped for it: the charge had been actually circulating in right-wing groups on social media sites, improved through Elon Musk, the proprietor of X. Just how performed the town happened at the center of a conservative conspiracy idea?