.WHEN DONALD TRUMP said the word "Springfield" 33 mins in to the American governmental controversy on September 10th, David Muir, the co-moderator, was readied. Because small Ohio town, Mr Trump stated, illegal immigrants are actually "eating the canines, they are actually eating the pussy-cats, they are actually eating the household pets of the people who stay there". Mr Muir promptly replied that, according to Springfield's city manager, there were no dependable files of pet-eating. The former president's case need to possess attacked a lot of visitors as strange. But great deals of Mr Trump's enthusiasts were keyed for it: the allegation possessed been moving around in right-wing circles on social media, increased by Elon Musk, the owner of X. How performed the town come to be at the facility of a right-wing conspiracy theory?