.WHEN DONALD TRUMP completed the word "Springfield" thirty three minutes into the United States governmental debate on September 10th, David Muir, the co-moderator, was prepared. Because small Ohio community, Mr Trump announced, illegal immigrants are "eating the pets, they're eating the kitties, they are actually eating the pets of the people that stay there". Mr Muir immediately responded that, depending on to Springfield's city manager, there were actually no dependable files of pet-eating. The former president's insurance claim should possess struck several visitors as bizarre. But considerable amounts of Mr Trump's fans were primed for it: the accusation possessed been circulating in conservative circles on social networks, enhanced through Elon Musk, the manager of X. Just how performed the city come to be at the centre of a right-wing conspiracy concept?