.WHEN DONALD TRUMP said words "Springfield" thirty three minutes into the United States presidential controversy on September 10th, David Muir, the co-moderator, was actually prepared. During that little Ohio town, Mr Trump declared, illegal immigrants are actually "eating the canines, they're eating the pussy-cats, they're consuming the animals of people that live there". Mr Muir promptly responded that, depending on to Springfield's mayor, there were no reputable files of pet-eating. The past head of state's insurance claim need to have attacked several viewers as unusual. Yet tons of Mr Trump's fans were actually topped for it: the charge had been actually circulating in right-wing circles on social networks, enhanced through Elon Musk, the owner of X. How performed the town come to be at the facility of a right-wing conspiracy theory?