.WHEN DONALD TRUMP said the word "Springfield" 33 mins into the United States governmental debate on September 10th, David Muir, the co-moderator, was prepared. In that small Ohio city, Mr Trump declared, illegal immigrants are "eating the canines, they are actually eating the pet cats, they are actually eating the pet dogs of the people that stay there". Mr Muir without delay answered that, depending on to Springfield's mayor, there were actually no qualified records of pet-eating. The past president's claim need to possess hit many customers as unusual. However lots of Mr Trump's supporters were actually keyed for it: the charge possessed been actually circulating in conservative circles on social media, improved through Elon Musk, the owner of X. Exactly how carried out the city come to be at the center of a right-wing conspiracy theory?