.WHEN DONALD TRUMP said words “Springfield” 33 mins into the American presidential controversy on September 10th, David Muir, the co-moderator, was actually prepared. During that tiny Ohio city, Mr Trump proclaimed, illegal aliens are “consuming the pet dogs, they’re eating the pussy-cats, they’re consuming the dogs of people that reside there”. Mr Muir promptly replied that, depending on to Springfield’s mayor, there were no trustworthy records of pet-eating.
The former president’s claim must have attacked many customers as strange. However considerable amounts of Mr Trump’s fans were actually keyed for it: the accusation had been moving around in conservative circles on social media sites, improved by Elon Odor, the proprietor of X. How performed the town become at the centre of a right-wing conspiracy theory?