.WHEN DONALD TRUMP completed the word "Springfield" thirty three minutes right into the United States governmental argument on September 10th, David Muir, the co-moderator, was prepared. In that small Ohio community, Mr Trump proclaimed, illegal immigrants are actually "consuming the dogs, they're eating the cats, they are actually eating the pets of the people who reside there". Mr Muir promptly responded that, according to Springfield's mayor, there were actually no legitimate reports of pet-eating. The previous president's case need to have struck a lot of visitors as strange. Yet lots of Mr Trump's supporters were primed for it: the charge possessed been circulating in right-wing groups on social networks, enhanced by Elon Odor, the proprietor of X. Just how did the community become at the center of a conservative conspiracy theory?