.WHEN DONALD TRUMP completed the word "Springfield" 33 moments in to the United States presidential debate on September 10th, David Muir, the co-moderator, was actually prepped. Because tiny Ohio town, Mr Trump stated, illegal immigrants are actually "eating the dogs, they're eating the felines, they are actually eating the pets of individuals that reside there". Mr Muir promptly answered that, according to Springfield's mayor, there were actually no reliable files of pet-eating. The former head of state's claim have to possess struck lots of viewers as strange. However considerable amounts of Mr Trump's supporters were topped for it: the accusation had been moving around in right-wing groups on social media sites, enhanced through Elon Odor, the owner of X. How carried out the town happened at the centre of a conservative conspiracy theory?