.WHEN DONALD TRUMP said the word "Springfield" 33 moments into the United States presidential controversy on September 10th, David Muir, the co-moderator, was readied. In that small Ohio community, Mr Trump announced, illegal immigrants are "eating the canines, they're eating the pet cats, they are actually consuming the household pets of people that live there". Mr Muir without delay responded that, depending on to Springfield's mayor, there were actually no dependable reports of pet-eating. The previous president's insurance claim have to have attacked numerous audiences as strange. However lots of Mr Trump's supporters were actually topped for it: the allegation had been circulating in right-wing groups on social networking sites, improved by Elon Odor, the manager of X. How did the city happened at the centre of a conservative conspiracy theory?