.WHEN DONALD TRUMP completed the word "Springfield" thirty three mins in to the United States presidential debate on September 10th, David Muir, the co-moderator, was prepared. During that little Ohio town, Mr Trump announced, illegal immigrants are "eating the dogs, they're eating the kitties, they are actually eating the pet dogs of the people that stay there". Mr Muir quickly answered that, depending on to Springfield's city manager, there were actually no legitimate records of pet-eating. The former president's claim need to have hit a lot of visitors as peculiar. Yet tons of Mr Trump's followers were primed for it: the charge had been actually moving around in conservative groups on social media, enhanced through Elon Odor, the manager of X. Just how did the community happened at the centre of a conservative conspiracy concept?